Outward bound, and off the pitch of Cape Horn, he used to sit on the taffrail, and keep the steward loading three or four old fowling pieces, with which he would bring down albatrosses, Cape pigeons, jays, petrels, and divers other
marine fowl, who followed chattering in our wake.
"I was about to be mustered into the Royal
Marines when he fell."
"A sergeant, sir, Royal
Marine Light Infantry, sir.
"If, on the contrary, we DO know all living kinds, we must necessarily seek for the animal in question amongst those
marine beings already classed; and, in that case, I should be disposed to admit the existence of a gigantic narwhal.
Along the whole west coast, which is inhabited by a peculiar marine fauna, tertiary beds are so scantily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar marine faunas will probably be preserved to a distant age.
With marine animals of all kinds, we may safely infer a large amount of migration during climatal and other changes; and when we see a species first appearing in any formation, the probability is that it only then first immigrated into that area.
Here were also, in some places, deposits of
marine shells, indicating that this mountain crest had at some remote period been below the waves.
It is very interesting thus to find a well-characterized genus, having its marine and terrestrial species, belonging to so confined a portion of the world.
If, therefore, we except the eighteen marine, the one fresh-water, and one land-shell, which have apparently come here as colonists from the central islands of the Pacific, and likewise the one distinct Pacific species of the Galapageian group of finches, we see that this archipelago, though standing in the Pacific Ocean, is zoologically part of America.
I have remarked that the marine Amblyrhynchus was larger at Albemarle Island than elsewhere; and M.
As regards the optical instruments at their disposal, they had excellent
marine glasses specially constructed for this journey.
The next day, Wahlen was making his way to an artillery crater to help five wounded
Marines when another shell landed nearby.
In addition to his secret life as a gay man in the
Marines, Merritt had yet another, more surprising secret, one he concealed from the press.
Fitzgerald, BLT, 1st Bn., 2nd
Marines, 24th MEU, Huber Heights, Ohio
That end product -- confident young men capable of handling extraordinary responsibility -- understandably fascinated Thomas Ricks, The Wall Street Journal's Pentagon reporter, when he observed
Marines on patrol in Somalia, so he followed his curiosity to the source.
