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We were now running along the north shore of Et-then, where are to be seen the wonderful 1,200-foot cliffs described and figured by Captain George Back in 1834. They are glorious ramparts, wonderful in size and in colour, marvellous in their geological display. Flying, and evidently nesting among the dizzy towers, were a few Barn-swallows and Phoebe-birds.
He had his fiddle and now he proceeded to favour us with 'A Life on the Ocean Wave, 'The Campbells are Coming, etc., in a manner worthy of his social position and of his fiddle. "At 7 the usual dead calm was restored. We rowed till we reached Et-then Island at 8, covering two miles more or 32 in all to-day.
On the 21st we were storm-bound at Et-then Island, but utilised the time collecting. I gathered a lot of roots of Pulsatilla and Calypso. Here Billy amused us by catching Wiskajons in an old-fashioned springle that dated from the days when guns were unknown; but the captured birds came back fearlessly each time after being released.
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