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darkened the sky, and we could not walk a step without tread- 

 ing upon their Eggs. As they kept hovering over our heads 

 at a little distance, the men knocked many of them down with 

 stones and sticks, and carried off several hundreds of their 

 Eggs. After sbme time I left the island and landed upon 

 the main, where our men dressed and eat their Eggs, though 

 there were young birds in most of them " Commodore yron f s 

 Voyage round the World. 



