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Fig. 6. Is a wild tree, on which we placed (as a memorial in case that ships should arrive) a tablet adorned 
with the arms of Holland, Zealand, and Amsterdam, so that others arriving here, might see that the Dutch had 
been there. 
Fig. 7. This is a Palm-tree. Many of these trees were felled by our companions, and they cut out the bud 
marked A, a good cure for pains in the limbs. It is two or three feet long, white within, and sweet ; some ate as 
many as seven or eight of them. , 
Fig. 8. Is a Bat, with a head like a Marmot. They fly here in great numbers, and hang in flocks to the trees ; 
they sometimes fight and bite each other. 
Fig. 9. Here the smith set up a forge, and wrought his iron; he also repaired some of the iron-work of 
the ships. 
Fig. 10. Are huts which we built there of trees and leaves, for those who aided the smith and cooper at their 
work; so that we might start at the first opportunity. 
Fig. 11. Here our chaplain, Philippe Pierre Delphois, a sincere and plain-spoken man, preached a very severe 
sermon, without sparing any one, twice during our stay in the island. One half of the crew attended it before 
dinner, and the other after. Here was Laurent (a Madagascar man) baptized, along with one or two of our 
own men. 
Fig. 12. Here we applied ourselves to fishing, and took an incredible quantity, to wit, two barrels and a half 
at one haul, all of different colours. 
3. Page 11. “ Eodem quoque loco,” &e. 
In the same island are found many birds twice the size of Swans. The men named them Walchstocken or 
Walckuégels, the flesh of which was not ill adapted for food. But as the same place furnished an abundance of 
Pigeons and Parrots, which were fat and well flavoured, our crew, neglecting the larger birds, preferred the more 
delicate and tender kinds, by feeding on which they solaced themselves in their troubles. 
4. Page 12. “Cap. IV. Gallinaceus Gallus peregrinus,” &e, 
A foreign kind of Cock.—Of those eight ships which sailed from Holland in April, 1598, five came in sight 
of a mountainous island for which they gladly steered. While staying in the island, they noticed various kinds of 
birds, and among them a very strange one, of which I saw a figure rudely drawn in a Journal of that voyage which 
they published after their return, and from which the figure at the head of this chapter is copied. 
This foreign bird was as large or larger than a Swan, but very different in form: for its head was large, covered 
as though with a membrane resembling a hood; the beak too was not flat, but thick and oblong, of a yellowish 
colour next the head, with the extremity black, the upper mandible hooked and curved, and in the lower was a 
bluish spot between the yellow and the black. They said that it was covered with few and short feathers, and had 
no wings, but, in place of them, four or five longish black quills. The hind part of the body was very fat and thick, 
and in place of a tail were four or five crisp curled feathers of a grey colour. Its legs were thick rather than long, 
the upper part as far as the knee covered with black feathers, the lower part and the feet yellowish; the feet were 
divided into four toes, the three longer ones directed forwards, and the fourth, which was shorter, turned backwards, 
and all of them furnished with black claws. The sailors called this bird in their own tongue, Walgh-vogel, that is, 
disgusting bird, partly because after a long boiling its flesh did not become more tender, but remained hard and 
indigestible, (except the breast and stomach which they found of no despicable flavour,) partly because they could 
get plenty of Turtle-doves which they found more delicate and savoury: it is therefore no wonder that they despised 
this bird and said that they could readily dispense with it. They said further that in its stomach certain stones 
were found, two of which I saw in the house of that accomplished man, Christian Porretus; they were of different 
forms, one full and rounded, the other uneven and angular, the former an inch in length, which I have figured at 
the feet of the bird, the latter larger and heavier, and both of a greyish colour. It is probable that they were 
picked up by the bird on the sea-shore and then devoured ; and not formed in its stomach. 
