. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ONE OF THESE FISH CROWS KEPT HOVER-ING CLOSE AROUND ME. SOOTY TERNS. THEY SETTLE DOWN UPON THE SAND CHAPTER V ON LONELY BIRD KEY As the chain grated the ear, I saw a clotid-like mass arise ozer the Bird Keyfrom which we were only a few hundred yards distance. . On lajtding, I felt fora moment as if the birds would raise me from the ground. — AuDUBON. OUTSIDE of Alaska, it would be hard to find a moredesolate or isolated region in our national domainthan the Dry Tortugas. Far out in the Gu
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ONE OF THESE FISH CROWS KEPT HOVER-ING CLOSE AROUND ME. SOOTY TERNS. THEY SETTLE DOWN UPON THE SAND CHAPTER V ON LONELY BIRD KEY As the chain grated the ear, I saw a clotid-like mass arise ozer the Bird Keyfrom which we were only a few hundred yards distance. . On lajtding, I felt fora moment as if the birds would raise me from the ground. — AuDUBON. OUTSIDE of Alaska, it would be hard to find a moredesolate or isolated region in our national domainthan the Dry Tortugas. Far out in the Gulf ofMexico, sixty-five miles from Key West toward the settingsun, rise half a dozen barren sand-bars from the exquisiteturquoise-blue w^aters of the Gulf. One of these, GardenKey, has been appropriated for a government fort and coal-ing-station, and from the massive walls of Fort Jefferson theexiled marines gaze wistfully across the sparkling waters,white-capped by the brisk trade-wind, toward their BrooklvnNavy Yard Jerusalem, and count up the remaining months 84 WILD WINGS of their pilgrimage. The only other human inhabitants arethe family who ten
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