In Coral-Land 87 
quillity, they swam leisurely along in the 
placid water. The dangers and priva¬ 
tions of the journey were over, they had 
made an excellent meal on some delicious 
tidbits found among the weeds, and 
nothing now remained but to enjoy to 
the full the delights of their new home. 
It was truly a charming place, being 
in reality a good sized lagoon, or lake, 
shut off from the outside world by the 
protecting coral-reefs which encircled it 
like a large ring. 
There are many such lagoons, and this 
one, called by the fish-world, “Coral- 
Land,” because of the beautiful coral 
within its depths, was only one of many 
coral-lands, for coral-islands, and coral- 
reefs are found everywhere in tropical 
seas. Sometimes these coral-reefs are 
found near the shores of large islands, or 
continents, and then they are called 
