An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spirzbergen.' 8 1 ound tikc a Cloud, and make fo great a noife, eonc Man can hardly hear the othcr. · Thc K frmews and Mo1111tai11· d11cl<1, and alfo Stnn:lj,,geu, mé.lke thcir Ndh on low ounris, e that one would think that the high arer muir needs run over them) on the fmall nds, wherc they are fecure from the foxes, not from the white BeJrs, for they fwim in Water from one Iíland to the other. We k up great ftore of their Eggs. Thc Neíls of thefe Birds are not ali maJe er the fome manner. Far the lll.01mlai11-áucl{ kes its Ndc of the Feathers of its owo Belly, ing them with Mofs. The feathers of thcfe Nefis are not the Ed– Down, brought us from líland, for that eth from great Birds ( that the Inhabitants e call Edder) and cofteth when it is clean• from the Mofs a Crown a Pound, as I have n informcd ; But the Feathers of the Mou11- -d,1e/zs of Spitzbcrgcn, which they call Down, Seamen put into their Pillows, and Stra.w– s, which if they {hould be cleanfed would more worth. he Kir111c-a, layeth their Eggs upon Mofs, fo do the Rotges. The Neíl:s of the reft of Birds were too high for us, fo that we could dly, and not without great difficulty reach . If ir be ncver fo <lark by reafon of a , yet every Bird knoweth how to find their Nd l: again, and ílyeth díreltly to it. oncerni n~ the Names of the Birds I have e ul~of !:hofe, th:tt the Searuen h:wc given G them