Beaver County News | 1927-08-26 | Page 2 | Truth about the Petrel

Truth Ak out the Petrel For centuries mariners believed that the petrel never approached land, and that it laid its egg at sea and carried car-ried it about under one wing until it hatched. Not long ago. however, a party of explorers found a small pt t-rel t-rel laying its egg under the soft soil of an isle of the Cape Verde archipelago, archipel-ago, instead of carrying it around under un-der its wing. The Cape Verde isle of Cima. which is uninhabited, is covered cov-ered with the tiny hones of millions of petrels, which in ages past have come there to die.