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Show Truth About the Petrel For centuries mariners believed that the petrel never npproaehod land, and Hint It 1st I1 its egg at sea and carried car-ried It about under one wing until It lint died. Not long ago, however, a pnrly of explorers found a small petrel pet-rel laying Its egg under the t;ol't soil of an Isle of the Cape Verde archipelago, archipel-ago, Instead of carrying It around under un-der Its whig. The Cnpe Verde Isle of (Tina, which Is uninhabited. Is covered cov-ered wllli the tiny bones of millions of petrels, which In ages past have come there to die. |