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say nothing of t v e numerous rough a 
lava^ dikes which had to be e mmmemem traversed for greater or 
v* order tho /■* oslve o»^y neouck^sr<\y 0,'t'cUI • 
less distances^ nal l^ came out at the nesting site 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 
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About a third of them were stTH^incubating eggs, another third were with 
young of various ages, and the remainder apparently just idling or 
straggling around. Two of these made a few hal f-hearted p asses at one 
’t‘«k 4 la bors 
another, scarcely, describsttm. as even a part of fESYbilling and fencing 
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*imxin l.cftfc 'i'ffl part of the remarkable nuptial dance of these birds. 
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So badly were we scratched up by thorny Ydowntha 
the return journey there was no thought of getting back any other way than 
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journey back 
along 
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to the landing over endless heaps of rounded boulders of all sizes, but mostly 
as as sTr©iwftw£ at dKe W o verioj, j( (£> 
large. Vw? all decided there was little room for choice between a hell of thorns 
and one of lava boulders. I , 1 1,1, . , 
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These lava^ beaches are not as dead and lifeless as they appear at 
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first glance* ^mm'tfxn the\ inter sticesujetwaen and below tide marks all manner 
of invertebrates are to be fotmdjpjiigher up, 
above the dash of the surf, 
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armies of the large red G-rapsus crabs scuttle about. Here and there is a 
flere h i4>T iWe 
bl V (kh a heron, fiveinp* t. h P. anrxrp n r Wflt.er** q hr*i 11 4 artt. r» rsrl (>C s 
heron, eyeing the surge of water;. a brilliant rod fly 
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catcher, Pyro cephalus , 1ria—fe pois ed on this, now^that, roc^t well ^ 
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c am ouf 1 age jsap^ful j, n spect i on ^ trffwi ^ 
himself in some sheltered nook or/^c limbering about over the boulders i 
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Altnough we did not get the nuptial dance of the Albatross filmed as 
we had hoped 
and & falls 
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», scratches, slips on rocks, 
to impress this day on Hood ion our memories. 
