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This being of itself a curious spectacle, the disappointed egg-hunters stop awhile to witness it, for they are still outside the bounds of the "penguinnery," and the birds have as yet taken no notice of them.
At which all three advance upon the "penguinnery," the two youths still incredulous as to there being any danger in fact, rather under the belief that the old salt is endeavouring to impose on their credulity. But they are soon undeceived.
So saying, the skipper takes a last look through the binocular, with a lingering hope that something may still be seen of the consort boat; then, disappointed, he leads the way down to the landing-place. Their further stay on the island is for but a few minutes, while the two youths make a fresh raid on the penguinnery, and rob it of another dozen of the young birds, as boat stores.
In accordance with this suggestion, each of the boys arms himself with an oar, leaving Seagriff the boat-hook. They enter among the tussac, and after tramping through it a hundred yards or so, they come upon a "penguinnery," sure enough. It is a grand one, extending over acres, with hundreds of nests if a slight depression in the naked surface of the ground deserves to be so called.
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