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ligste engelske Reisei‘ 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 anfdre dem efter Tidsfdigen : 
1536. I Beretningen om Hores Reise i dette Aar til Gap 
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, 
untill they came to the Island of Penguin^ which is very 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 infinite num- 
bers of their egges. They draue a great number of the foules in- 
to their boates upon their sayles, and tooke up raany of their 
egges, the foules they flead and their skinnes were very like 
hony combes full of holes being flead off: they dressed and eate 
them and found ttiem to be very good and nourishing meat. They 
saw also store of beares both blacke and white, of whome they 
killed some, and tooke them for no bad foode” p. 168. 
At 6en 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 slandeth about the lati- 
tude of 50 degrees”, en Angivelse, som Hakluyt var fuldkom- 
of Strangers, perfornied within and before the time of tliese hundred 
yeeres etc. etc. III vol. London. 1600. Denne sjeldne gamle Udgave 
er [3aa det store kongl. Bihliothek. Et nyt Optryk, der er lettere tilgæn¬ 
geligt, og som derfor her stedse citeres, har Titlen: Hahluyts Colleclion 
of the early voyagesj Travels, and Discoveries of the English Nation. 
A new edition, with additions, vol III. London 1810. 
*) The voyage of il/. Ho7-e and diners other gentlemen, to Nevsloundland, 
and Cape Briton, in the yeere 1536 and in ihe 28 yere of king Henry 
the 8. Hahhiyt IH. S. 168—170. 
