 | George Cartwright - 1792 - 284 páginas
...for this is now the only ifland they have left to breed upon; all others lying fo near to the fhores of Newfoundland, they are continually robbed. The birds which the people bring from thence, they fait and eat, in lieu of falted pork. It is a very extraordinary thing (yet a certain fact) that the... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1880 - 864 páginas
...Penguins, for this is now the only island they have left to breed upon ; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland they are continually robbed....thence, they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork." * The same author states that the Red or Wild Indians of Newfoundland visited Funk Island every year.... | |
 | Charles Wendell Townsend, Glover Morrill Allen - 1907 - 166 páginas
...contemporary references to this extinct bird are of great interest, we quote the following from Cartwright?s Labrador "Journal," although all the records are at...bred. It seems hardly probable that they would have been driven off their breeding places on the Labrador coast in his day if any such existed, and it... | |
 | George Cartwright - 1911 - 472 páginas
...penguins: for this is now the only island they have left to breed upon; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland they are continually robbed....thence, they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork. It is a very extraordinary thing (yet a certain fact) that the Red, or Wild Indians, of Newfoundland should... | |
 | George Cartwright - 1911 - 518 páginas
...penguins: for this is now the only island they have left to breed upon; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland they are continually robbed. The birds which the people bring from thence, ihey salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork. It is a very extraordinary thing (yet a certain fact) that... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1919 - 880 páginas
...penguins; for this Is now the only island they have left to breed upon; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland, they are continually robbed....thence they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork. The following note by JA Allen (1876) describes more in detail the horrible slaughter for the feathers... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1919 - 384 páginas
...penguins; for this is now the only island they have left to breed upon; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland, they are continually robbed....thence they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork. The following note by JA Allen (1876) describes more in detail the horrible slaughter for the feathers... | |
 | Jacques Cartier - 1924 - 396 páginas
...board, as she will hold; for, the wings of those birds being remarkably short, they cannot fly ... The birds which the people bring from thence, they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork." on les ayt arimez. II y en a cent [foisc] plus a 1'environ d'icelle, et en 1'oir, que dedans 1'isle4... | |
 | Public Archives of Canada - 1924 - 394 páginas
...board, as she will hold; for, the wings of those birds being remarkably short, they cannot fly . . . The birds which the people bring from thence, they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork." on les ayt arimez. Il y en a cent [foisc] plus a 1'environ d'icelle, et en 1'oir, que dedans 1'isle4;... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1880 - 850 páginas
...Penguins, for this is now the only island they have left to breed upon ; all others lying so near to the shores of Newfoundland they are continually robbed....thence, they salt and eat, in lieu of salted pork." * The same author states that the Eed or Wild Indians of Newfoundland visited Funk Island every year.... | |
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... for the sake of their feathers, the destruction which they have made is incredible. If a stop is not soon put to that practice, the whole breed will be diminished to almost nothing, particularly the penguins; for this is now the only island they have... 
