The First Written Grammar of English

Francis Fletcher wrote that the crew saw black and white birds walking around as they were sailing through that region. He wrote quote, in the islands we found great relief and plenty of good vitals,. For infinite were the numbers of the foul which the Welsh men call penguin. End quote. Now that's the first recorded reference to the birds in the southern hemisphere as penguins. But what happened to those great arcs in the north which people also called penguins? Well the passage from Gilbert's voyage provides the answer. In other words, since they couldn't fly they were easy to capture and over the following centuries they were hunted out of existence. They were extinct by the mid-1800