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"It may be we may kill some alcamies (a fowl like our curlews) for ourselves, for I know he keeps the gunner’s stores in the ship."
Original text: Robinson Crusoe
I can't find any reference to alcamies anywhere. Seeing how some names in this book were misspelled/mispronounced according to our modern standard, does anybody know what kind of bird this might be?
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It's like a curlew . . .   The name of the second picture above is ". . .BBC . . . curlew-alamy . . ."
Wyrd bið ful aræd - bull!
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