butterface-beak

Updated: May 29, 2025

Benjy thought that it should have been named Butterface-beak, because the steward had been the first to observe it, but his father thought otherwise. About three miles to the northward of this point of land the Eskimos were encamped.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole