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saved us from a good deal of worry a point found the object of our sear* h 



regarding John's actions when we an- 

 nounced our intentions of seeing and 

 photographing the crouching old figure 

 in stone. When every excuse as to 

 time, wind and weather failed he turned 

 the canoe in the direction of the island. 



not a hundred yards from where we had 

 landed. 

 On our second night out ii began to 



rain and we were awakened by John 

 fastening the opening of our tent to 

 keep us from getting wet. 



JOHN 



Then after passing on the other side 

 of it and taking us to the opposite 

 side of the bay in a driving wind, pro- 

 fessedly in search of it, he finally de- 

 cided to bow to the inevitable and land- 

 ed us on some rocks on the island and 

 said he would go himself to look for 

 "Granny." After an absence of fifteen 

 or twenty minutes he came back shak- 

 ing his head. He had found nothing. 

 We got into the canoe and rounding 



In the morning it came down in tor- 

 rents, and even poured through the tent. 

 We folded up our blankets and covered 

 them to keep them dry, then sat in as 

 dry a spot as we could find and shiv- 

 ered at the prospect of a cold breakfast 

 and a dreary day. In half an hour John 

 appeared looking like a wet rat, bearing 

 a breakfast of steaming porridge, pota- 

 toes, bacon and coffee, which he had 

 cooked in the pouring rain. After that 



