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ANOTHER PENGUIN SETTLEMENT. 
evil eyes, and point ominously at him a wide open beak. They 
seem able to accommodate any number of penguinlets under their 
ample breast; and if those of another family are consigned to the 
care of a mother-bird, she immediately takes charge of them along 
with her own. When the young attain a certain age, they are led to 
the sea and taught to swim, — the old birds carefully supporting them 
until they are able to go alone. 
According to Lord George Campbell, an endless stream of penguins 
is perpetually passing to and from the sea; and he describes it as 
singularly laughable to see them coming down a steep brae from the 
bank to the beach — a feat they accomplish either by waddling care- 
fully sideways or by straightforward jumps, "looking as if they said, 
after every jump, ' Uugh ! so far good ! now another — uugh !' as plump 
they landed after every jump, looking human to the last degree with 
their pink feet." 
On Nightingale Island, another of the Tristan d'Acunha group, the 
people of the Challenger again encountered the penguins. The whole 
area of the island is covered with the tall tussock gi-ass among which 
they delight to build their nests. Lord George Campbell landed with 
some brother officers, and this is the scene they saw : — 
" We landed on the rocks pretty easily, and scrambled up their 
slippery sides till we came to the tussock grass, which, circled by a 
penguin street, we skirted, till we got to a rock, on the top of which 
we sat, — hundreds of penguins on the rocks just below us, where was 
their landing-place, a street from thence leading up into the high grass 
which surrounded our rock. While we sat here two mollymawks 
quietly walked out from under the grass behind us, and stood uncon- 
cernedly by our side. They are beautiful birds — snow-white throat 
and breast, black wings and tail, the back of the head and neck tinted 
a pearly gray, a black bill, with an orange streak along the top of the 
upper mandible ; black eyes, placed under a straight black eyebrow, 
which, with a soft edging of black around the eye, gives them an odd 
look of half-fierceness, half-gentleness. This rock appeared to be a 
starting-point from which, coming from their nests among the grass, 
