30 THE ‘NATURAL HISTORY | 
‘comes in NiGvehiBER, and ftays until the Septem: 
_ ber following : “it lays one large white and brittle 
eSBs and hatches it in the middle of June. There 
is'no bird fo ufeful to the iflanders, becaufe it 
furnithes them with oil for their lamps, and down 
for their beds, and food for their tables. ‘The oil 
is taken for 2 medicine, and it is good for bruifes. 
F ulmars can fpout it from their bills to a great 
diftance ; and they are very apt to do fo, into 
the faces of thofe who try to take them. For — 
this reafon, they endeavour to catch the Fulmar 
fuddenly, and before he is aware, by the neck, to. 
fave the oil, which is of fo much ufe, Ful- 
mars are larger than common Sea Gulls. They 
follow the Whale-fifhers in great flocks ; and 
when. a Whale is caught, they fettle upon it, and 
| pick out large lumps of fat, even whilft he is alive. 
* ‘Whales have a great deal of fat, or blubber, under 
their fkins ; and fo have the Sea-lions: for in 
thofe poteherk feas, where they are found, the 
water is extremely cold; and the fat which they _ 
are covered with, prevents them from feeling the’ 
cold. The Whale-fifhers often know that a 
‘Whale Tenear, by the flock od F ulmars that < are 
flying about him. 
The pouch of the under j jaw of the F ulmar i is 
: for med into a bladder: thefe bladders are fixed to. 
the 
