text:  They subsequently received an accession to their party in two Bernacle ganders which Mr Waterton had brought over from Rotterdam and the partners of which had died soon after their arrival perhaps from the act of pinioning them; though Mr Waterton seems more inclined to attribute their untimely end to the stupidity of a Hull custom-house officer who sent the hamper containing them jolting in a truck without springs over the rough pavement to the custom-house only to be peremptorily sent back as not liable to duty by another of the same genus