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FISHEEMENS HUTS. 
place, above which, clustering together in every 
accessible ledge, are fisherinen’s huts, looking, when 
seen from a distance, like a group of martins’ 
nests. On landing, we mounted from one stony 
terrace to another by rude steps cut in the rock, 
and saw around us and above us nothing but fish 
— fish in various forms, but chiefly split open, and 
drying on the great bare rocks. 
The blue pigeon has possession of the wall-faced 
cliffs, and feeds unmolested in the hollows of their 
grassy tops. Here also a pretty blue thrush flies 
from one lichen-spotted boulder to another ; and 
now and then the great brown lizard, a species of 
skink, emerges from his hiding place in the crevice 
of some rock. 
