10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOVEKEY»
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The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. to the Arctic ...
... that as long as there were any dovekies to be had, the men were not allowed
any preserved meats, giving them instead, a dovekey or a dovekey and a half.
The allowance of preserved meats was four lbs. per day, amongst six, and to
each ...
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The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic ...
It must, however, be observed, that as long as there were any dovekies to be had,
the men were not allowed any preserved meats, giving them instead, a dovekey
or a dovekey and a half. The allowance of preserved meats was four lbs. per ...
During the prime tourist season in the seaside village of Dovekey Beach, visitors to the beach are slowly disappearing, and it is up to Elizabeth Will to solve the mystery and find the killer out to destroy the town's tourist industry by ...
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A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: ...
800 Dovekey ( Uria grylle) . . . . . . .100 Little Auks or Rotches (Aha alle) . . . . . 500
Glaucous Gull (Larus glaums) ..... 2 Ivory Gull (Larus eburneus) 2 Fulmar Petrel
or " Mollies " (Procellaria glacialis) . . 2 Arctic Tern (Sterna arctica) 2 3OO ...
Sir Albert Hastings Markham, Sherard Osborn, 1874
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Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West ...
... a dovekey, and one or two ivory gulls, were all the birds seen in the course of
this day's run. To the land along which we had now been sailing, I gave the name
of North Somerset, in honour of my native county ; and the northern shore of ...
William Edward Parry, 1821
6
Franklin's Footsteps: A Sketch of Greenland Along the Shores ...
Dovekey—the whalers' name for the Black Guillemot, Uria G-rylle, ' Guillemot a
miroir blanc ' of Temminck. Smaller than the former. The whole of the plumage is
black, except a patch on the wing, which is white; legs red; length about fourteen
...
Sir Clements Robert Markham, 1853
7
Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph René Bellot, with His Journal ...
With one discharge of his gun, Mr. Kennedy killed nine, whilst we were unloading
the sledge: they are not such agreeable food as the dovekey, and must be freed
from all fat before cooking. The ice is being constantly undermined by the ...
8
A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery of the Arctic Regions ...
Another species of diver was seen to-day for the first time this voyage, which, like
the preceding, is seldom seen except in the vicinity of ice; it is called by seamen,
Dovekey, (Colymbus G1ylle, Lin.) Saturday, 19th. -—It has been observed, that ...
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A journal of a voyage of discovery to the arctic regions in ...
During these two days past, a great number of mallemucks, and several of the
various other aquatic birds that frequent these seas have been seen, viz.
glaucous, and ivory gulls, loons, ratges, and the black-diver, commonly called
dovekey, ...
10
Arctic Expedition: Further Correspondence and Proceedings ...
And several other fossicular remains not described Natural History. Colymbus
Gryllse - Dovekey. Alea Arctica - - Puffin. Larus Eburneus - - Ivory Gull Anas
Molissima - - Eider Duck. Vulpes Lagopus - - Blue Fox. Larus Glaucus - -
Burgomaster.
Great Britain. Admiralty, Edwin Jesse De Haven, 1852
