An account of several late voyages and discoveries

·7~ The Ftn1ttb p,,,, of tl1e V 0 y 4 g~ 1 can tell nothing of its finging, only 1 whitfeleth a litde, as B1rds ufe to do when are hungry. When we failed near the Ice, they e great flocks to us in our Ship, near the IOa 'joh11 ,Y111e11, and were ío tame, thatyou take them up ~ith your Hands. They run upon the Ice where 1 onlv them, and not opon the Land, whkh ·i, reafon that they are caUed Snon,-birá,. l ~bey kept with our Ship t iJI wc c:ud1'0 firft í11hale, and after that the other Birds f' ned them away. W e fed them with OatmeaJ, but when Bellies were full, they would not fuffer 1 felves to be taken up. We put forneof · in a Cage, and hung them up in the Cabloi they did not live long. We e=it fome of them, and tbey vmen an unpleafant tafte, but very lean. lf 1 give my opinion, why the Birds Ríe to the 1 believe that they are {lray· d from the l and that fo the Hunger compels them to Ships for Food. Tab. K. at b. III. O/ 1he lce-hirJs. I fa w alfo in the Englifl, H~ven, ::i very '. tiful /ce-bird, which was fo tame, that we have taken him up ahnoft with our Hand~ we would not go too near him with our. for fcar that we fbould fboot him all in and fo f poil bis curious Feathers, fo we him, aad he flew away~