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We took up our guns to show that we were about to follow ; and on this he began to jump , and frisk about , and bark , to exhibit his satisfaction , and then he stopped and went on a little , and then stopped again to see that we were following . In great hopes that he was leading us to our friends , we went on as fast as we could walk . Our path led us under some cliffs which were literally crowded with penguins and young albatrosses , or mollimauks . There was a regular encampment or rookery of them , extending for five or six hundred yards in length , and from one to two dozen in breadth . The nests of the albatrosses were nearly a foot high , and of a cup-like form . Feathers were just beginning to spread on the backs and wings of the young birds , and to take the place of the down with which they had originally been covered . Old Surley passed by without taking any notice of them .