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Updated: May 13, 2025
A simple shadow would not have made such a commotion as that? "Sahibs!" said Ossaroo, in a tone of mysterious gravity, "he be one ob two ting. He eider be de god Brahma, or " "Or what?" demanded Caspar. "An ole rogue." "An old rogue?" said Caspar, repeating the words of the shikaree. "What do you mean by that, Ossy?" "What you Feringhee, sahib, call rogue elephant."
In the Gulf the Bird rocks and Bonaventure island to the south; one of the Mingan islands, the Perroquets and Egg island to the north; with the Pilgrims, up the River, above the Saguenay and off the South Shore, are the best. The Pilgrims, 700 miles from the Atlantic, are probably the furthest inland point in the world where the eider breeds. They would make an ideal seabird sanctuary.
It was not usual for any one to gain access to the eider queen's inner chambers without first obtaining permission, from Atossa herself, and Nehushta had never been there. They met rarely in public, and spoke little, though each maintained the appearances of courtesy; but Atossa's smile was the sweeter of the two.
The eider ducks, or dunter geese, as we call them in Orkney, are always plentiful in the winter time, and valuable not only for their flesh, but also for their rich downy feathers, and I managed to procure a good number of these. Over at the fresh-water loch of Harray, too, several teals and sheldrakes were taken.
He found the fauna of this country much richer than the flora; he perceived long flocks of geese and cranes going northward, partridges, eider ducks of a bluish black, sandpipers, a sort of wading bird of the scolopax class, northern divers, plungers with very long bodies, numerous ptarmites, a sort of bird very good to eat, dovekies with black bodies, wings spotted with white, feet and beak red as coral; noisy bands of kittywakes and fat loons with white breasts, represented the ornithology of the island.
"So will I," said Miles Soper, who had heard us talking about the matter. "And I no stop eider, and den he lose four good hands. He no like dat," said Sam Coal. Brown, hearing from Jim of my apprehensions, said he would go likewise if the captain attempted to play any tricks of that sort. Three days after the gale we hove-to off three small islands surrounded by a reef.
But the most famous one of all is the Eider Duck the one which yields such an abundance of exquisitely soft, warm down that we use it for making the best sort of bedquilts." "Can you always tell a Sea Duck from a River Duck by the feathers or how?" asked Rap.
We had killed nothing as yet, except a few eider ducks, and one or two ice-birds the most graceful winged creatures I have ever seen, with immensely long pinions, and plumage of spotless white.
"By my head," saith the eider damsel, "were it not for the Golden Circlet that he is bound of right to deliver again to the Queen that had it in charge, who is my Lady, they should not depart from this land in such sort as they will. But, and Messire Gawain still be nice as concerneth damsels, at least I now know well that he is loyal in anotherwise, so as that he will not fail of his word."
The year 1864 we just spoke of 1863 brought a new pressing danger of war. From the moment when our troops crossed the Eider, I was ready every week to see the European Council of Elders interfere in this Danish affair, and you will agree with me that this was highly probable.
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