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On the following morning, two large canoes twenty paddles in each came in from somewhere about Milne Bay. They remained for some time near the shore, getting all the news they could about us from the shore-folk; then the leader amongst them stood up and caught his nose, and pointed to his stomach we doing the same. The large canoes went ashore, and the chief came off to us in a small one.
I crossed the ice this morning with a party of men exploring the southern part of the floe, while Mr. Milne went off in a northerly direction. We pushed on for ten or twelve miles without seeing a trace of any living thing except a single bird, which fluttered a great way over our heads, and which by its flight I should judge to have been a falcon.
To them panpipes might play in vain, but almost any series of statistics or the more desiccated kind of social fact recited with a terrier-like air of sagacity would entrance them. "The mines are Baird's, you know Sir Milne Baird; it's a Glasgow firm...." "Mhm," said Mr. Philip, "I know who you mean."
I left the room and went into a friend's room, and lay on the sofa the rest of the night. I told him why, I also told others in the house, but when I told my father he ordered me not to repeat such nonsense, and especially not to let my mother know. "On the Monday following I received a note from Sir Alexander Milne to say that the Redan was stormed, but no particulars.
At first Don Blas treated Mr Milne very roughly, being enraged at having missed taking the English privateer, and had only retaken a Spanish prize, and in the first transport of his passion struck Mr Milne over the head with the flat of his sword.
More than twenty years later, M.M. Audouin and Milne Edwards carried out the principle of distinguishing the Faunae of different zones of depth much more minutely, in their "Recherches pour servir
He had not so much trouble on the return trip; Ensign Milne had procured for him a good horse, and a rifle he had had a brace of pistols the horse was a free goer as fresh now as if he had not been a mile to-day. "And where is he now?" asked Demeré, a look of anxiety on his face. "At MacLeod Station, hitched there with a good saddle on him and saddle-bags half full of corn."
This building is in much need of repair, and is daily becoming more dilapidated. It has already deviated many feet from the perpendicular, and might not unaptly be described as the Leaning Tower of Ningpo." Dr. Milne thus describes the view from the summit:
Cool breeze from south-east. Very cold night and morning. Tuesday, 10th January, Milne Springs. Latitude, 28 degrees 15 minutes 45 seconds. Shoeing horses. Flies a great trouble; can do nothing for them. If they are allowed to remain a moment on the eye, it swells up immediately, and is very painful. Kekwick and the other man returned at 9 o'clock p.m.
We shall certainly never succeed in making so perfect a collection: nevertheless, in certain classes, we are tending in this direction; and Milne Edwards has lately insisted, in an able paper, on the high importance of looking to types, whether or not we can separate and define the groups to which such types belong.
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