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going thro -u gh den se spiny thickets, natural barricades, or 
better describes them, to say nothing of the numerous T9ggh and often muc) 
shattered lava dikes which had to be c ossed or traversed for greater or 
less distances. (^^naT ly^cam e out at the nesting sit© of the albatross, 
Only comparatively few birds remained out of the thousands that have been 
reported resident at other times of the year. We saw some thirty birds. 
About a third of them were sti 
eggs, another third were with 
young of v rious ages, and the ramainder apparently just idling or 
straggling around. Two of these made a few half-hearted passes at one 
another, scarcely describabie as even a part of 
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and fencing 
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indulged in as part of the remarkable nuptial dance of these birds. HUt 
So badly were we scratched up by the thorny passage down that on 
the return journey there was no thought of getting back any other way than 
along shore, and after making that, as it proved to be strenuous journey back 
to the landing over endless heaps of rounded boulders of all sizes, but mostly 
large, we all decided there was little room for choice between a hell of thorns 
and one of lava boulders. 
These lava beaches a -e not as dead and lifeless as they appear at 
first glance. Down in the interstices between and below tide marks all manner 
of Invertebrates are to be found; higher up, just above the dash of the surf, 
armies of the large red Grapsus crabs scuttle about. Her© and there is a 
bird, a little green heron, eyeing the surge of water;, a brilliant red fly- 
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catcher, Pyroceohalus. there posed on this, now that, rock^j and Well color 
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camouflaged, with careful Inspection, one discerns, a marine i guana . nxm.nl ng 
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himself in some sheltered nook or/clambering about over the boulders. 
Although we did not get the nuptial dance of the Albatross filmed as 
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and a fall or two to indelibly impress this day waft Hood on our memories 
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