hat follows is a very select one. Only a favoured few are allowedto partake, and the young men are not permitted to touch it; if they do, theyare severely punished. The flesh is said by a traveller to be very delicious, and somethingbetween that of a turkey and a sucking-pig. But, at the time he… … taste, and that the flesh of the young ones is very tender and dehcate. Thehinder quarters are the only parts that are eaten, and they are such a weight•X is no easy matter for a man to carry them home on his shoulders. Theeggs are about the size of those of the ostrich, and at the proper season…
Birds -- Juvenile literature
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