. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . not so well-bred were a trio in a neighboring nest. a pair of splendid white pelicans CHAPTER III IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS Soon were lost ui a viaze of slugi^lsh and Jezions loatcrs, VVliicli, like a network of steel, extended in every dircetion. Over their Iieads the teriuering mtd tenebrous bouglis of the cypress Met i}t a dusky areJi, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the wails of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, ajid unbroken, saie by
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . not so well-bred were a trio in a neighboring nest. a pair of splendid white pelicans CHAPTER III IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS Soon were lost ui a viaze of slugi^lsh and Jezions loatcrs, VVliicli, like a network of steel, extended in every dircetion. Over their Iieads the teriuering mtd tenebrous bouglis of the cypress Met i}t a dusky areJi, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the wails of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, ajid unbroken, saie by the herons. Longfellow, Evangeline. IT was a cool, sparkling morning, with a bracing north-erly wind, the twenty-sixth of April, when we shoved thetender over the slippery soap-flat, and, in boots loadedwith the tenacious white clay mud, stood upon the southern-most tip of the mainland of the United States. An almostunbroken, unsurveyed wilderness lay before us, with all itsinteresting possibilities. A handful of settlers had taken upclaims of government land along the shore, cleared a few 42 WILD WINGS openings in the mangroves, and built their crude
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