Where the Albatross Breed.
While the Kahu wag at the Chatham Islands doing her usual round. Captain Romeril took a party of natives off to a rock called Motuhara, or the Forty-Fours, on a birding expedition , says the Pout. The party consisted of ten natives, who were landed at 11 o'clock in the forenoon and were back on board the Kahu by 5 p.m., having in that time knocked down 1500 albatrosses, each bird on an average weighing 171 b, or a lump total of 11£ tons. They were nearly all young birds. Some were measured, and the average from tip to tip of wings was from 10ft to 10ft Gin. One of the natives brought the Captain half of a candle, picked up on top of the rock, and evidently carried there by one of the old birds for her young. Captain Romeril has it still in his possession as a curio.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 October 1891, Page 3
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153Where the Albatross Breed. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 October 1891, Page 3
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