200 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OP DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



whose laws are to he obeyed; the second vessel is styled 

 the commodore. 



The peasants of Norway collect the eggs of the sea- 

 birds, which are found in great numbers on all the 

 coasts of their country. The eggs of the thick-billed or 

 Brunnoch's guillemot are much sought after at the 

 Farralones Islands, near San Francisco Bay. 



At the island of Ichaboe, on the West Coast of Africa, 

 large quantities of eggs are obtained. In the months 

 of October and November the island is literally covered 

 with jackass-penguins {Eudyptes demersa) and gannets 

 {Sula bassana), which come here for the purpose of lay- 

 ing and incubation. The penguins lay three or four 

 eggs, but the gannet seldom more than two. 



At Cape Town some 30,000 eggs of the penguin are 

 frequently received in a day from Jutten and Dassen 

 Islands. 



The island of Tristan dAcunha is another great 

 resort for sea-birds, numbers of penguins' eggs are 

 obtained there at two great rookeries or nesting-places. 

 The men who go to gather the eggs wear a large 

 shirt tied round their waist, so as to form a great 

 loose bag in front, and they pop the eggs in as fast as 

 they can pick them up. They will gather from 200 

 to 300 in this way, no little load to carry, as they 

 vary in size from a large hen's egg to that of a goose. 



Funk Island has been visited from time immemorial 

 by all the poor people of the northern part of New- 

 foundland, for the procuring of eggs and birds which 

 frequent the island in immense numbers, upon which 

 they subsist for several months of the year, having 

 no other animal food to use ; they salt down the birds 

 in barrels for preservation. The fishermen of all other 

 parts of the colony, on their voyage to Labrador in 

 the spring, regularly resort to Funk Island to procure 

 the eggs of the sea-fowl, which there accumulate in vast 

 quantities in the course of two or three days, and having 

 supplied themselves with barrels full, they proceed on 

 their voyage, and when arrived at their destination 



