292 The Animal-Lore of ShaJcspeare’s Time. 
all other mentioned in Lopez, Maninseus, Cortez, and the rest of that 
kind.” (Works, vol. iii. part 2, p. 1802, ed. 1725.) 
Another traveller, Sir Thomas Roe, 1613, also de¬ 
scribes the islands in Sonldania Bay :— 
“ Soldania is,” he writes, “ as I suppose, an iland, in the south end 
whereof is the Cape of Good Hope, divided from the maine land by a 
deepe hay on the south-east side, and due east by a river, which wee 
discerne upon the table. There is on the iland, buls, cowes, antelops, 
baboones, moules of great bignesse, feasants, passerflannugos, and many 
others. On Pengwin [Island] there is a fowle so called, that goes 
upright, his wings without feathers, hanging down like sleeves faced 
with white: they fly not, but walke in pathes and keep their divisions 
and quarters orderly; they are a strange fowle, or rather a miscella¬ 
neous creature of beast, bird, and fish, but most of bird, confuting that 
definition to be animal bipes implume, which is nearer to a description 
of this creature.” ( Purchas , vol. i. p. 536.) 
The great auk, now extinct, was probably abundant. 
Pennant, in his Zoology, says that the great auk is a bird 
observed by seamen never to wander beyond soundings; 
and according to its appearance they direct their mea¬ 
sures, being then assured that land is not very remote. 
Describing the wonders of the East Riding of Yorkshire*. 
Drayton writes:— 
“ The mullet, and the awke (my fowlers there do find,) 
Of all Great Britain brood, birds of the strangest kind, 
That building in the rocks, being taken with the hand, 
And cast beyond the cliff, that pointeth to the land, 
Fall instantly to ground, as though it were a stone, 
But put out to the sea, they instantly are gone, 
As only by that air they on their wings were borne, 
And fly a league or two before they do return.” 
( PolyoTbion, song xxviii.) 
The Dabchick, or Little Grebe, has acquired a variety 
Dabchick names ^ rom the peculiarity of its move¬ 
ments. Shakspeare applies to it the appro¬ 
priate name of dive-dapper:— 
