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Zoological observations, Royal Bay, South Georgia 1882–1883. Part 2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Karl von den Steinen
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaS7N OWO
William Barr
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaS7N OWO

Extract

There was no animal on South Georgia that we took into our hearts so much as these comical ‘Johnnies’, as the whalers call them. Not one of us, I am convinced, will recall our isolated existence in later years without simultaneously thinking with inner pleasure of these wonderful creatures. In their droll caricaturing of human gait and movements they provided an inexhautible source of humorous observations; further, in that their eggs allowed our chef to rise to unexpected achievements, they provided an equally pleasant resource.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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