An account of several late voyages and discoveries
Th~ F ""''" P "' ' of tbe 1'01,ge They build their Nefls in the Clifts of llocks, yet not all of them, for fome make 1 N\:lts upon the Bilis or Mountains, of Mo where we found them, and we killed abunda of their young ones with Scicks. They ¡ upon the grey Worms thar are like Crawfifu which are dclineated hereafter: They alfo the red Shrimps or Prawns: W e got the firn them on the ke on the 29th <lay of .\ta,, , afterwards more of them by Spitzberr,e11. . They are very good Food, and the befr the Str,zndrHnner, are flefuly and fattilh; boyl and chen roafi: them. 1~ Tab. .1\:1 they a mark·d withb. t VII. o¡ tbe Strtmtjager ( or Du11g-hH11te,. ) This Bird hath a Bill fomcw hat blunt befi . and crooked, and ís thick; jf I rcmember,· is black. He hath but three Claws 1 which are join together with a black Skin ; his Legs are "Very long ; bis Tayl, which is like unto a fa hath this mark, that one Feather thereof fta out before all the refi : He is black on tht! t , of bis Head : His Eyes are b).te~ ; ahout · Neck he hath a dark yellowiíh l\.ing or Cirde bis Wings as well as his Back, are Brown , u derneatb bis Belly he is white; he is fomewh bigger than the Mew called Kutge-gehe~; hunts and tlies in th.e Air after the Mew l\.utg. gehef, fo long torments her, until {be avoide her Dung, on wbich this Bird fe.eds, whkh · catch
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