Ocean Wanderers 



season before the young were all able to leave the 

 nests. Probably it is this tardiness that makes some 

 of the fishermen believe that the Petrels hibernate 

 in these burrows, and come forth in the spring 

 sound and strong. 



But the Ocean Wanderers need not our theor- 

 izing or assistance ; they are a law unto themselves. 

 We cannot hope to follow them in all their devious 

 and trackless wanderings. Storms that destroy us 

 are to them of little moment. For decades yet 

 they will seek out their arctic and antarctic solitudes 

 beyond our reach and ken. Yet though they regard 

 us not, we shall know more of these wild, free 

 roving creatures the more that we, like them, 

 love to be 



" Rocked in the cradle of the deep." 



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