But Amaro Delano, who called in 1803, makes no mention of the Portuguese; and when, in 1822, Commodore Owen visited Trinidad, he found nothing living there save cormorants, petrels, gannets, man-of-war birds, and "turtles weighing from five hundred to seven hundred pounds."
"Real Soldiers of Fortune"
Richard Harding Davis
The gannets who live in those parts had taken possession of her, and she was so covered with nests that you could not have walked one step on her deck without treading on them.
"Mopsa the Fairy"
Jean Ingelow
Nor did we see gannets, or the black bird, commonly called the Cape Hen, till we were nearly within sight of the Cape.
"A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1"
James Cook