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ice in Jacob's Bay in Lat. 71. from the 
24th of June to the 3rd of July, Ful- 
mars were passing in a continual stream to 
the northward, in numbers inferior only to 
the flight of the Passenger Pigeon in 
America." 
Pennant speaking of those which breed 
on, or inhabit the island of St. Kilda, says : 
" No bird is of such use to the islanders 
as this: the Fulmar supplies them with 
oil for their lamps, down for their beds, a 
delicacy for their tables, a balm for their 
wounds, and a medicine for their dis- 
tempers." 
These birds are extremely greedy and 
gluttonous, and will devour any floating 
putrid substances. They also pursue the 
whales, but particularly the bloody tract of 
those which are wounded, and in such great 
flocks as thereby sometimes to discover the 
prize to the fishers, with whom they gene- 
rally share ; for when the huge animal is 
no longer able to sink, the Fulmars, in 
multitudes alight upon it, and ravenously 
pluck oil and devour lumps of the blubber 
until they can hold no more. 
