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" Before we passed these Hands, vnder the Lee of the bigger Hand we 

 anchored, the winde being at North-east, with intent to refresh our 

 selues with the Fowles of these Hands. They are of divers sorts, and 

 in great plenty, as Pengwins, wild Ducks, Guls, and Gamuts ; of the 

 principal we purposed to make prouision, and these were the Pen- 

 guins, 



" The Pengwin is in all proportion like a Goose, and hath no feathers, 

 but a certaine downe vpon all parts of his bodie ; and therefore cannot 

 flee, but auayleth himselfe on all occasions with his feet, running as 

 fast as most men. He liueth in the Sea and on the Land ; feedeth on 

 fish in the Sea, and as a Goose on the shore vpon grasse. They harbour 

 themselues vnder the ground in Burrowes, as the Conies ; and in them 

 hatch their young. All parts of the Hand where they haunted were 

 vndermined, saue onely one Valley which (it seemeth) they reserued for 

 their food ; for it was as greene as any Medow in the month of Aprill, 

 with a most fine short grasse. The flesh of these Pengwins is much of 

 the sauour of a certaine Fowle taken in the Hands of Lundy and Silley, 

 which we call Puffins, by the taste it is easily discerned that they feed 

 on fish. They are very fat, and in dressing must be flead as the Byter ; 

 they are reasonable meate rosted, baked, or sodden ; but best rosted. 

 We salted some doozen or sixteene Hogsheads, which serued vs (whilest 

 they lasted) in steed of powdred Beefe. The hunting of them (as wee may 

 well terme it) was a great recreation to my company, and worth the sight, 

 for, in determining to catch them, necessarily was required great store 

 of people, euery one with a cudgell in his hand, to compasse them round 

 about, to bring them, as it were, into a Ring ; if they chanced to break 

 out, then was the sport, for the ground beeing vndermined, at vnawares 

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

 another offering to strike at one, lifting vp his hande, sunke vp to the 

 arme-pits in the earth, another leaping to avoid 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 

 persecuted they would tumble down from such high Rockes and Moun- 

 taines, 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 folio weth, 

 like sheepe after the Bel-weather ; but in getting them once within the 

 Ring close together, few escaped, save such as by chance hid themselues 



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