mutton-bird

Updated: May 15, 2025

I suppose that saved my life. For food, there was shell-fish and mutton-bird eggs, with no lack of boiling water to cook them. "I lived there so long that I forgot the flight of time. I became a wild man a mere shaggy animal, living, eating, and sleeping like a beast. "I was rescued by a passing steamer at last, rescued without any effort of my own, for I had gone past caring.

Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees - The Moon Rock