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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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nd on very dark night some may even hear the flutter of vibrant wings but a few feet overhead. Nevertheless, something besides sight guides these travelers in the upper air. In Alaska a few years ago members of the Biological Survey on the Harriman expedition went by steamer from the island of Unalaska to Bogoslof Island, a distance of about sixty miles. A dense fog had shut out every object beyond a hundred yards. When the steamer was halfway across, flocks ofmurres began to break through the fog wallastern, fly parallel with the vessel, and ds-appear in the mists ahead. The power which carried them unerringly home over the ocean wastes, whatever its nature, may be called its sense of direction. We recognize in ourselves some such sense, though imperfect and easily at fault. Doubtless a similar but vastly more acute sense enabled the murres, flying from home and circling wide over the water, to keep in mind the direction of their nests and return to them without the aid of sight. Herbert Whyte.
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CHIEF WARDER OF THE FROZEN NORTH. From an oil painting made for The Outing Magazine by Herbert Pullinger. THE OUTING

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