Subject: Passenger Pigeons -- in French
Date: Jun 15 06:51:15 1999
From: Dale Goble - gobled at uidaho.edu




Bob --

I don't know the answer to your question, but one of the classic early
description of the magnitude of a flight of pigeons was written by
Cartier. The following is a citation to a reprint of the English
translation -- I presume, however, that you would be able to find the
original at UW:

Jacques Cartier, A shorte and briefe narration of the Navigation made
by the commandement of the King of France, to the Islands of Canada,
Hochelaga, Saguenay, and divers others which now are called New
France, with the particular customes, and manners of the inhabitants
therein, in 8 RICHARD HAKLUYT, THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS VOYAGES
TRAFFIQUES & DISCOVERIES MADE BY SEA OR OVER-LAND TO THE REMOTE AND
FARTHEST QUARTERS OF THE EARTH AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE COMPASSE OF
THESE 1600 YEERES 210 (1904)


Dale Goble
MOscow