FOR THE PUPIL
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Tillamook: the name of a town near the coast of Oregon.
at the mouth of the bay: Tillamook Bay, where the bar is only about thirty feet wide, making the passage extremely difficult and dangerous.
Three-Arch Rocks Reservation: was set aside by President Roosevelt. Credit for this and the other Oregon Reservations is largely due to Mr. William L. Finley and the Audubon Societies.
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Shag Rock: so named for the black cormorants that nest upon it, for these birds are commonly known as “shags.”
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the sea-lions: were of the species known as Steller’s sea-lions.
reversed in shape: I mean the close hind flippers, the tapering hind end of the body, gave them an unnatural shape—reversed.
Æolus: the god of the winds.
CHAPTER VIII
TO THE TEACHER