132 THE ALBATROSS AND PENGUIN. 
feet, but ten feet is sometimes the meaz 
sure. The Albatross scours all the seas, 
from Kamtschatka to the Line, and is every 
where the plunderer of the Boobies and 
other fishing-birds, and a fierce and powerful 
mountain-bird of prey; but, though this is 
its true character, it lives upon the kindest 
terms with the Penguin, unless, indeed, there 
is a general confusion of the Albatross with 
the Pelican, or unless both Pelican and Al- 
batross live equally well with the Penguin ; 
for what one writer relates of the Penguin 
and Albatross, another refers to the Penguin 
and the Pelican. The Penguin is a sea- 
bird which occupies, in the southern parts of 
the world, the place of the Hawk in the 
northern. ‘The Albatross,’ says Goldsmith, 
“seems to have a peculiar affection for the 
‘Penguin, and a pleasure in its society. | They 
are always seen to choose the same places 
for breeding; some distant, uninhabited 
island, where the ground slants to the sea, 
as the Penguin is not formed either «for fly~ 
ing or climbing. In such places, their nests 
are seen together, as if they stood in need of 
mutual assistance and protection. Captain 
