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Evening fell rapidly; the shadows deepened into black, impalpable clouds.
Slowly the _Mercur_ steamed up the narrow Magerosund behind the bare, rocky island of Magero, on which stands the North Cape. On either side rose, sheer from the rolling waters, the dark, black, inaccessible rocks, the home of thousands of sea-birds.