Few in the woods and fewer on the windy downs, here birds were abundant, not only on the building, where they were like seafowl congregated on a precipitous rock, but they were all about me.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
However, though it was frightful to be alone in this frozen vault, with no other society than that of the dead, not even a seafowl to put life into the scene, I could not but feel that, be my prospects what they might, for the moment I was safe-that is to say, I was immeasurably securer than ever I could have been in the boat, which, when I had emerged into this stormy sound and realized the sea that was running outside, I instantly thought of with a shudder.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
It was a mere sand-bank, which supplied them only with water and seafowl.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne