bongainville

Updated: June 22, 2025

Bongainville relates, that at his arrival at the Malouine, or Falkland's Islands, which were not inhabited by men, all the animals came about himself and his people; the fowls settling upon their heads and shoulders, and the quadrupeds running about their feet.

Erasmus Darwin - Zoonomia, Vol. I: Or, the Laws of Organic Life