Some one, but not euerie such Rocke, may yeeld yeerely
towards thirtie dozen of Guls. They are kept tame, and fed fat,
but none of the Sea kind will breede out of their naturall place:
Yet at Caryhayes, master Treuanions house, which bordereth on the
Cliffe, an old Gull did (with an extraordinarie charitie) accustome,
for diuers yeeres together, to come and feede the young ones
(though perhaps none of his alliance) in the court where they were
kept. It is held, that the Barnacle breedeth vnder water on such
ships sides, as haue beene verie long at Sea, hanging there by the
Bill, vntill his full growth dismisse him to be a perfect fowle:
and for proofe hereof, many little things like birds, are ordinarily
found in such places, but I cannot heare any man speake of hauing
seene them ripe. The Puffyn hatcheth in holes of the Cliffe, whose
young ones are thence ferretted out, being exceeding fat, kept salted,
and reputed for fish, as comming neerest thereto in their taste.
The Burranet hath like breeding, and, after her young ones are
hatched, shee leadeth them sometimes ouer-land, the space of a mile
or better, into the hauen, where such as haue leasure to take their
pastime, chace them one by one with a boate, and stones, to often
diuing, vntill, through wearinesse, they are taken vp at the boates
side by hand, carried home, and kept tame with the Ducks: the Egges
of diuers of these Fowles are good to bee eaten.
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