"Her beak unlocks her bosom's stream

To still her famished nestling's scream."

And, when Keats states so sententiously in Endymion, "We are nurtured like a pelican brood," he merely calls the world at large, fish-eaters.


CHAPTER IX

SLAVE RIVER AND GREAT SLAVE LAKE

"Wild for the hunter's roving, and the use

Of trappers in its dark and trackless vales,

Wild with the trampling of the giant moose,