AS FAR AS HARRINGTON 



dorians will become more and more desirable. 

 I asked William and Ernest where they would 

 prefer to live if they had plenty of money and 

 could choose, and they both said, "On the 

 coast.'* 



"The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone 

 Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; 

 Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, 

 And his long nights of reyelry and ease." 



Barren and bleak was Seal-Net Point, and 

 on the second day fog and rain and storm 

 rolled in from the Gulf, so that the Sea Star 

 pitched and tugged at her anchor-chains, yet 

 these two days were not grudged by us. In 

 the first place, the botanist found plenty of 

 pinguiculas and many other arctic plants 

 which cheered his heart, while I was so thrilled 

 by finding on the first day the breeding-pla:ce 

 of ring-billed gulls that I was buoyed up by 

 the memory during the succeeding storm, and 

 the odor of fish that hung about the little 

 harbor was as incense in my nostrils. 



The ring-billed gull is about two thirds the 

 size of a herring gull, but wears very similar 

 plumage. It breeds commonly in British Co- 

 lumbia and in the northwestern part of the 

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