The island seemed to be apportioned out into squares, of which each penguin possessed one, and sat in stiff solemnity in the middle of it, or took a slow march up and down the spaces between.
We turned to look in the direction pointed out, and there saw a penguin walking slowly and very sedately along the shore with an egg under its tail.
That rascally old lady penguin has just pitched her young one into the sea, and there's another about to follow her example.
I immediately took it into my head that this was the albatross I had seen at Penguin Island.
Penguin Island lay on the other side of our own island, at about a mile beyond the outer reef, and we calculated that it must be at least twenty miles distant by the way we should have to go.
The wind, which had carried us so quickly to Penguin Island, freshened as evening drew on to a stiff breeze, and before we had made half the distance to the small island, it became a regular gale.
One day, not long after our little boat was finished, we were sitting on the rocks at Spouting Cliff, and talking of an excursion which we intended to make to Penguin Island the next day.
There were several others, we observed, burdened in the same way; and we found afterwards that these were a species ofpenguin that always carried their eggs so.
We found it quite impossible to make Penguin Island.
To hide all traces of the outrage, the captain and his men not only carried the dead penguin and the live dog to the boat, but carefully scraped up every particle of the stained snow, which was also carried to the boat and finally to the ship.
Whether the dog followed the penguin, or the penguin the dog, he said he never knew; but as soon as both were out of sight the dog pounced upon the bird and strangled it.
After one is able to keep a fairly straight line, he is put on a Penguin that moves at a faster rate, and after being able to handle it successfully passes to a very speedy one, known as the "rapid.
Then he gets into a single-seated one and, while the rapidly whirling propeller is pulling him along, tries to keep the Penguin in a straight line.
I have visited the rookeries where the penguinand the albatross live together in good fellowship, and that was well worth my while.
In our wanderings we visited the penguin rookeries at "The Nuggets," and one solitary bird sat in the centre of the vast area which had so lately been a scene of much noise and contention.
In one case a penguin had escaped, presumably from a sea-leopard, with several serious wounds, and had staggered up to a rookery, dying there from loss of blood.
At this date the penguin rookeries were full of new-laid eggs, and the popular taste inclined towards omelettes, in the production of which Mertz was a past master.
The figures are based on the supposition that unlimited quantities of seal and penguin meat can be had on the spot, and, furthermore, are ample for a second year's requirements should the party be unavoidably detained.
The ideal site, however, is a pleurophyllum flat adjoining a penguin rookery.
Within a few days of the taking of this picture the hut became so buried in packed snow that ever afterwards little beyond the roof was to be seen Weddell seals asleep on pancake ice Adelie penguin after weathering a severe blizzard.
As our friendlypenguin had made off in that direction, we elected to call the place Penguin Point, intending to touch there on the return journey.
Having a fair wind they made good headway along the coast, dropping in at a gentoo penguin rookery en route, and collecting about two hundred and twenty eggs.
The cook in a swift survey notes the absence of penguin meat.
We were once more on the western side of Ninnis Glacier and the familiar coast of Penguin Point, partly hidden by an iceberg, sprang into view.
Bowls are cleared away and baked penguin is put on the table.
The penguin is a very rare bird of passage, with peculiar habits.
These are the last penguin hunters, what remain of the old set.
Most birds which swim under water use the legs for propelling the body: but the penguin uses his paddles instead.
And still more surprising to find that, this being so, thepenguin should have been forced, so to speak, to adopt the expedient of evolving a paddle; and so forego the power of aerial locomotion.
Why then, did the penguin suffer the loss of the use of his wings for flight?
If you hadn't tried to grab that penguin we wouldn't have been in this trouble.
The motor-sledge was soon speeding over the snow and in a few minutes was at the edge of the declivity in which lay the penguin rookery.
He arose with yellow yolks streaming from him and covered with down, feathers and eggshell, that made him look like a spectacled penguin himself.
I will get a penguin yet, even if I have to fight a regiment of them.
Boys, that penguin was as slippery as a greased pig and as fat as butter.
The next morning we accordingly put to sea, and a few hours afterwards being abreast of Penguin island, we saw the store-ship a long way to the eastward.
The next day we passed between Penguin Island and Green Point, and worked into Table Bay with our top-sails close reefed, there being a strong gale, with hard squalls, at S.
There were thousands of seals and penguins about the ship, and near Penguin Island several smaller islands, or rather rocks.
At noon, on Thursday the 11th, Penguin Island bore N.
The flesh of the old penguin has so rank a smell that it is only used by those frequenting the island in case of the most extraordinary necessity; that of the young, on the other hand, has a far more agreeable flavour.
The breeding-place of the penguin is about 300 feet above the level of the water in the basin of the crater.
Of birds with fin-shaped wings, there was the golden-crested penguin (Apterodytes chrysocoma S.
Janet Cooper, who hadn't anything else, bet her Penguin Badge, which was like pledging the family Bible.
And there, among the trees, is the Penguin Circle, where we sleep.
At night Pip-Emma and one of the Pelicans lighted the Penguin campfire so that the Penguins in their open tents could see the flames dance.
Some lingering Penguin rectitude still glowed in her, but only faintly.
When Pip-Emma, seated at the Penguin table, thought of the Pineapple Temptation Ma might be eating at that very moment, her gloom deepened.
The Penguin Circle was near the lake, and she could see the parents, looking better from a distance, lined up on benches along the water's edge.
The Penguin Circle was quarantined, and at night Pip-Emma sat alone by the campfire.
Prissy says I could win the Penguin Trophy if I didn't have my complex.
At that moment every Penguin was stricken by the same thought.
At the last moment one of the Penguin counselors went down with a cold, and Prissy had to take on the Penguins single-handed.
She'd seen a penguin once at the zoo, and she'd seen no sense in it.
It was more than an hour after being taken on board the Penguin before he could give any account of himself, or be made to comprehend the nature of the accident which had befallen our boat.
At each intersection of these paths the nest of an albatross is constructed, and a penguin's nest in the centre of each square--thus every penguin is surrounded by four albatrosses, and each albatross by a like number of penguins.
The body of a man was seen to be affixed in the most singular manner to the smooth and shining bottom (the Penguin was coppered and copper-fastened), and beating violently against it with every movement of the hull.
Between this bird and the penguin the most singular friendship exists.
The Penguin got into port about nine o'clock in the morning, after encountering one of the severest gales ever experienced off Nantucket.
When he was finally picked up, every power of his mind had failed him; and, as before said, it was nearly an hour after getting on board the Penguin before he became fully aware of his condition.
And he flapped his arms, and wriggled about in a manner so extraordinary that he looked more like a penguin than ever.
These people were none other than Bill Barnacle, the sailor, and his friend, Sam Sawnoff, the penguin bold.
Illustration] 'O see the penguin as he goes A-turning Catherine wheels, Without repose upon the nose Of walruses and seals.
Bill nodded, and the Penguin leaned across to Bunyip Bluegum and said in a low voice, 'It's a Magic Puddin'.
To see the penguin at his ease Performing fearful larks With stingarees of all degrees, As well as whales and sharks; The sight would quickly let you know The great contempt that penguins show For stingarees and sharks.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey through Yugoslavia" by Rebecca West - Penguin Books 1994 edition p.
For the fat sheep we got on Penguin island, we left lean in their room.
The other two were homeward-bound, having made train-oil of seals at Penguin island.
They entered the straits on the 6th April, supplying themselves at Penguin islands with thirteen or fourteen hundred of these birds.
The 8th day we passed the second narrows with a fair wind, and came to anchor at Penguin Island, where we landed, and loaded our boat with penguins.
At Penguin island, five or six leagues from the land, there are abundance of the birds of that name, and infinite numbers of seals.
The 21st, the captain and master went to Penguin island, three leagues from the road.
Penguin breed, says that in Lombok "there is an unusual and very wonderful variety of ducks.
In the sternum, furculum, coracoids, and scapulae, the differences are so slight and so variable as not to be worth notice, except that in two skeletons of the Penguin duck the terminal portion of the scapula was much attenuated.
But in the Penguinand Hook-billed ducks, the terminal phalanges of the wing are a little shortened.
In the Penguin the premaxillaries are relatively shorter than in the wild duck; and the inferior points of the paramastoids more prominent.
One Penguin drake which I kept alive differed from those of which the skins were sent me from Lombok, in having its breast and back partially coloured with chestnut-brown, thus more closely resembling the Mallard.
I crossed Hook-billed and common ducks, and a Penguin and Labrador, and the crossed Ducks were quite fertile, though they were not bred inter se, so that the experiment was not fully tried.
I sent the boys to catch some of our geese and ducks, and bid them fasten a penguin to each by the leg, thinking that it was worth while to try to tame them.
The potatoes were, as usual, excellent, thepenguin really not so bad as I expected, although fishy in taste and very tough.
But now let us think no more of poisons; here is supper ready and we need not be afraid to eat roast penguin and potatoes.
This is the Auk, family Alcidae, and must not be confounded with the penguin of the southern hemisphere, although it is described by the early navigators of the Northern Atlantic under that appellation.
Accordingly, he set out, accompanied by Sieur de Poutrincourt, and several other noblemen, with the intention of going to Penguin Island, where we had previously killed with sticks a large number of these birds.
They had with frantic haste to dart through the clumps of tussac and penguin grass to reach the beach.
Instead of going directly inland, we made our way along the shore among the penguin grass.
The roar was repeated, and there was a loud rustling among the penguin grass on a mound near us.
He remained faithful to Prince Crucho and preserved the hope of restoring the heir of the Draconides to the Penguin throne.
The self-importance which the Penguinladies give themselves does not go so far back as that," answered M.
At present when a penguin desires a penguin he knows precisely what he desires and his lust is limited by an exact knowledge of its object.
The Penguin clergy pine in desolation; our country priests, reduced to following the humblest of trades, are shoeless, and compelled to live upon such scraps as they can pick up.
Delivered from its fears and pleased at having escaped from so great a danger, the government resolved to celebrate the anniversary of the Penguin regeneration and the establishment of the Republic by holding a general holiday.
I picture to myself the Penguin primitives in conformity with the works of that master.
Penguin society is being strangled by its infamy, and you are requested to save it, to give it air that it can breathe.
He was not a bill-poster; his name was Colomban, and as the author of sixty volumes on Penguin sociology he was numbered among the most laborious and respected writers in Alca.
This is true of the Penguin nation, as of all other nations.
The Porpoise Chronicles contradict thePenguin Chronicles at every point.
I'he Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (Baltimore: Penguin, 1964).
I saw nothing strange or novel, except the penguins on Penguin Point, who were drawn up as usual in martial array, and I could not help wishing that I had a few brave and devoted sailors with me at this time.
When off Penguin Point I again put to sea, at least twenty-five miles due west; but as in the former case discovered no land.
I put everything to rights at the Hermitage, and then with the steam yacht I visited Eastern Cape, East and West Signal, and Penguin Points, and gathered together all the gunpowder placed there beside the cannon mounted at those stations.
I named the point, Penguin Point, being the first of these birds that I had seen.
Penguin island, at the cape of Good Hope, sank, and is now only known to mariners by name.
Dickinson was killed and the Penguin captured in 22 minutes; she was so much injured that it was found necessary to sink her.
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