Scottish geographical magazine . ^ inept. As aspecimen of the birds ofNoAaya Zemlya, hesays, a penguin AvasdraAvn and already pointed out,Martiniere speaks of theZemlian coast, and notof the island of NoA^ayaZemlya at all. As for theterm penguin, AvhichNordenskiold seems tothink belongs exclusivelyto the Southern Hemi-sphere, it is an old name for the great auk (A lea imjyennis), although AvenoAv associate it only Avith the true penguins (Spheniscida?) of the south.^For example, a Avriter of the eighteenth century (CartAvright, 1792) 1 A very amusing discussion of the question as
Scottish geographical magazine . ^ inept. As aspecimen of the birds ofNoAaya Zemlya, hesays, a penguin AvasdraAvn and already pointed out,Martiniere speaks of theZemlian coast, and notof the island of NoA^ayaZemlya at all. As for theterm penguin, AvhichNordenskiold seems tothink belongs exclusivelyto the Southern Hemi-sphere, it is an old name for the great auk (A lea imjyennis), although AvenoAv associate it only Avith the true penguins (Spheniscida?) of the south.^For example, a Avriter of the eighteenth century (CartAvright, 1792) 1 A very amusing discussion of the question as to whether the French word piugouin can or cannot be applied to the auks will be found in the preface to Anatole Francessatirical romance, Llle des Pingouins. M. Frances piugouius, which lived in theArctic, are certainly auks.—Ed. A Narwhal hunt. 400 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. describes having seen an Eskimo in his kayak chasing a penguin inthe sea near Togo Island, Newfoundland, in 1771 ; and there can be nodoubt that this is the great auk, of whose skin, according to Pennant,the Eskimos of Southern Labrador and Xewfoundland made own description of those penguins of Arctic Europe isfamiliar reading to any modern Antarctic Aoyager. He relates how heand his companions knocked the birds over with their sticks, becausethey were scarcely able to fly; and he adds, that when preparing themfor food, we were obliged to flay them, their skin being so hard thatthe feathers could only be plucked out with great difficulty : the flesh isvery good, tasting like Avild duck, and ^ery fat. apologisesto his readers for introducing these references to Arctic penguins andto narwhal horns: I refer to these absurdities, he explains, becausethe account of Martinieres voyage exerted no little in
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