Lories are better food than the jacamar, the flesh of which is rather tough, but it was difficult to persuade Pencroft that he had not killed the king of eatable birds.
Les loris faisaient un gibier meilleur que le jacamar, dont la chair est un peu coriace, mais on eût difficilement persuadé à Pencroff qu'il n'avait point tué le roi des volatiles comestibles.