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THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
in a warm, warm country, and nearly all the 
ships were going right through the land where 
he did not care to follow. His friends on the 
lumber schooner were far away on some other 
waters by this time, so he need never hope to 
see them again. 
What was he to do? Should he join 
some ship coming out of the canal and go¬ 
ing back to the land from which he came? 
Should he go still farther south? He was quite 
sure that he could not endure a much warmer 
country than this. If it grew warmer and 
warmer as he went on southward he was quite 
sure he would perish. But somehow, he felt 
that the sailors could not stand more heat than 
he could, which was right. 
He didn’t know just what would happen, 
but anyway he felt that there would be a change 
of some sort if he kept going south, and he was 
very, very eager to discover what that strange 
