. Les créatures de la mer [microforme] : les récits de vie de certains oiseaux de mer, des bêtes, et des poissons. Animaux marins ; les poissons ; Faune marine ; Poissons de mer. 404 La Frégate Bird. gelder, sûr de sa connaissance de ce que Yates avait écrit de ces serpents, et calme dans sa foi en la grande autorité, il peut procéder à l'examen le serpent vivant. Il est mordu et meurt, mais avec son dernier souffle, il gémit : ' Yates haf a menti à brint.' très triste. mais tout à fait compréhensible. Une nouvelle série de livres nous allons traiter les faits de l'histoire naturelle, qui ne doit pas apparaître avec une seule instruction fondée sur le w

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. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. 404 The Frigate Bird. gelder, secure in his knowledge of what Yates had written of those snakes, and calm in his faith in the great authority, proceeds to examine the snake alive. He is bitten and dies, but with his latest breath he moans: ' Yates haf lied in brint.' Very sad. but quite understandable. A new series of books will presently deal with facts of natural history, wherein shall not appear one single statement based upon the wild romancmgs of the ancient naturalists, but all verified by personal observation, with the names of the authors given for easy reference. Not that, except in the interests of truth, it matters very much whether one speaks of the Man-of-War Bird as subsisting on the wing through life and floating calmly over hundreds of leagues of ocean remote from ffu °I l?*"^*.^^' ^^ ^ compared with the condor of the Andes 'or power of vision and spread of wing or any other tale that might occur to so essentially fanciful a raconteur as the romantic Michelet. Only If we are to have facts, let them be facts; if fiction, let us understand and enjoy it as such. The Frigate Bird IS wonderful enougl. to excite all our admiration, without one scrap of fiction being tacked on to him elegant and withal rapacious enough to be called the eagle of the sea, although his size is so small that with multitudes of other saUors, I have had many ample opportunities of being quite familiar with the Fngate Bird, and in what I have to say about him I shall only state that which I know from personal observation. I first knew the Frigate Bird in the West Indies, afterwards about Ascension, and after that again all over the Gulf of Mexico and around its sandy bays. And as I read Michelet's effusion after I had. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e

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