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then was tlie sport, for the ground beeing vndermined, at vna- 

 wares it failed, and as they ranne after them, one fell here, 

 another there, another offering to strike at one, lifting vp his 

 hand, sunke vp to the arme-pits in the earth, another leaping to 

 auoid one hole, fell into another. And after the first slaughter, 

 in seeing vs on the shoare, they shunned vs, and procured 

 to recouer the Sea : yea many times seeing themselues per- 

 secuted they Avould tumble down from such high Rockes and 

 Mountaines, as it seemed impossible to escape with life. Yet as 

 soone as they came to the Beach, presently we should see them 

 runne into the Sea, as though they had no hurt. Where one 

 goeth, the other foUoweth, like sheepe after the Bel- weather : 

 but in getting them once within the Ring close together, few 

 escaped, saue such as by chance hid themselues in the borrowes, 

 and ordinarily there was no Droue which yeelded vs not a 

 thousand, and more : the manner of killing them which the 

 Hunters vsed, beeing in a cluster together, was with their 

 cudgels to knocke them on the head, for though a man gaue 

 them many blowes on the body they dyed not : Besides the flesh 

 bruized is not good to keepe. The massacre ended, presently 

 they cut off their heads, that they might bleed well : such as we 

 determined to keepe for store, we saued in this manner. First, 

 wee split them, and then washed them well in Sea-water, then 

 salted them, liauing laine some sixe houres in Salt, we put them 

 in presse eight houres, and the bloud being soaked out, wee 

 salted them againe in our other caske, as is the custom to salt 

 Beefe, after this manner they continued good some two moneths, 

 and serued vs in steed of Beefe." 



At Penguin Island, near Port Desire, in 1670, Sir John 

 Narborough says : — " I took into my Boat three hundred 

 Penguins, in lefs than half an hour, and could have taken three 

 thousand in the time, if my Boat would have carried 'em ; for 

 'tis but driving 'em in Flocks to the Shore, by the Boat fide, 

 when two or three men knock them on the head with fhort 

 Truncheons, and the reft heave them into the Boat." 



