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ligstc engelske Reiser til Nordamerika, har jeg fundet folgende 

 Steder, som give os Oplysninger om, at ikke alene hine Oer have 

 Navn af en Fugl, der benævnes Pengvin , men at denne Fugl 

 tillige var en meget anseelig og stor Fugl, der paa Grund af sine 

 Vingers Korthed var uduelig til Flugt og som i det Hele gjen- 

 kalder Billedet af Geirfuglen. Jeg vil anfore dem efter Tidsfolgen: 



1536. I Beretningen om Hores Reise i dette Aar til Cap 

 Breton og Newfoundland*) hedder det saaledes: 



„From the time of their setting out from Grauesend, they 

 were very long at sea, to witte, aboue two moneths, and neuer 

 touched any land untill they came to part of the West Indies 

 about Cape Briton, shaping their course thence Northeastwardes, 



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full of 



rockes and stones, whereon they went and found it full of great 

 foules white and gray, as big as geese, and they saw inftnite num- 



f 



f the foules 



to their boates upon their sayles, and tooke up many of their 

 egges, the foules they flead and their skinnes were very like 

 hony combes full of holes being flead oft": they dressed and eate 

 them and found them to be very good and nourishing meat. The} 

 saw also store of beares both blacke and white, of whome the) 

 killed sorae, and tooke them for ri o bad foode" p. 168. 



At Oen er Pengvinoen paa Landets ostlige Side,, er vel klart 

 nok saavel af Seilretningen, som ifolge den af Hakluyt i Randen 

 givne Henvisning: „The Island ofPenguin standeth about the lali- 

 tude of 50 degrees", en Angivelse, som Hakluyt var fuldkom- 



of Strangers, performed within and before the time uf thcse hundred 

 yeeres etc. ete. III vol. London. 1600. Denne sjeldne jpimle l T dgave 

 er paa det store kongl. Bibliothek. Et nyt Optryk, der er lettere tilgæn- 

 geligt, og som derfor her stedse citeres, har Titlen: Hakluyts Colleclion 

 of the early voyages, Travels, and Discoveries of the English Natton. 



A new edition, with additions, vol III. London 1810. 

 *) The voyage of M. Hore and diuei;s other gentlemen, to ^Newfoundland 

 and Cape Briton, in the yeere 1536 and in the 28 yere uf king U** r 1 

 the 8. Hakluyt lll. S. 168-170. 



