30 A Voyage to JAMAICA. 
member it was likely they had come Originally from Baréary. Thole who 
have a mind to confult Authors about them may fee, among others thefe who 
difcourfe of them under the following Names, viz. 
Locufte Roffe and Gjalle di Cadamofto, ££ 17. and 109. Grafhoppers of 
Efcarbot. Nova Francia, 210. Of Giros. Purchas, 1425. OF Fo. Dos Sanétos, 
ib.1554. Locufls of Schnirdel. Purchas, p.1359. Ludolf: cap. 10. lib. x, 
ver. 16. Comm. 1. 96. Pp. 168. Numb. r1. Qu. Selaw, Coturnix or Quails, 
Fuan de Barros, lib 1. Decad. r. p. 16. 
When we came into 13°.10. Lat. we went due Welt for Barbados, which 
is the way not to mifSit, becaufe Sailers being fure of the Latitude by Of{E- 
vation they kecp in it leaft they fhould run by the land, which being very 
low Land, and fo confequently not vifible far off at Sea, may be cafily over- 
run by unwary Scamen. We faw here feveral Tropick-Birds, and Men of 
War Birds, the laft of which is mentioned by the following Writers. 
Caripira de Lact. lib, 15. cap.13. p- 575. Caripira forked Tails, bringing 
news of Ships, Anonymus Port. Purchas, p.1317. Coda inforcata, that is the 
forked Tail. Ovied.fum. p.202. An Sea-Mews or Cormorants, Fjufd. ib. p.2.14 2 
Birds which the Portuguefe call Garayos, or Rabos forcados, with Tails like a 
Taylor's Shears, of Mandelflo, p.196. Rabi horcados todos Negros, de Oviedo, 
bib. 14. cap. 1. Rabi forcatr. Fj. ap. Ramnus, p. 161. Fregattes de Ravenean 
de Lujan. p. 116. and 218. who obferved them at Pillia and Guatulco, a 
Rock in the South-Seas. Fregattes entierement Noirs, Rochef, p. 164. Rabi- 
horcado Fernandez, Birds attending the rifing of Flying-Fithes of Ligon, p. 4. 
Rabo-forcade, and Rabi-horcado, Cluf. exot. p.107. Oyfeaux faifans la Chaffe aux 
Poiffons. d’ Abbeville, p.52%. Fourcades, Ejufd. p. 532 aves furcate Lact. p. 6or. 
Fregattes du Tertre, p. 269. ‘Cifeawx de Confturier deCauche, p. 133. Aves ditte 
Rabos forcados, -cauda bifurcata, Aldrov.Ornith. tom. 3- p.544. Sea-Fowl chafing 
the Flying-Fifh of Afawkins, Hakl. p.520. A Man of War of Ligon, p.61. Of 
Fo. Davis Purchas, 132. : . 
This Bird feems very large, bigger than a Kite, and Black ; they fly like 
Kites very high, and often appear immoveable over the water, to wait for, 
Of Mes of and catch {mall -Fifh appearing on its Surface; they are fharp winged, and 
War-Bsrds, their Tail is forked. When Flying-Fifhes are perfecuted under water by 
Dolphins, Bonitos,crc. ‘They rife and fly for fome {pace in the Air, and are 
often devoured by thefe Birds in that time. 
We faw them firft when we came near Barbados. The Sailers guefS them- 
{clves\not many days, or about Two hundred Leagues off the Hlands when 
they {py:them firft, and itis wonder’d at how they:can dire@ their Courfe to 
the Land at Nights, being fo far diftant, it feems no very ftrange matter, be- 
caufethey are very high inthe Air, and -can'feedand ‘much farther then thofe 
on the Deck or Top-Maft.\ofa Ship. The Reafon of their flying fo high 
may -beto have a greater Field before them, for Prey, becaufe ithey may go 
where they \fee\the Dolphins follow or hunt the Flying-Fifhes. 
.. They arecommonly thought in the'Weff-Jndies to foretel the coming in of 
Ships; -for when they fee a Man of War-Bird come into their Ports, they 
reckon Ships will foon follow, and ’tis very often true, for they ‘love to Fifh in 
not very: reugh;Weather, {o that whemit blows hard at Sea they come into the 
Rerts land Bays;to Fifh, where the Wind is broken off by the Land, and rhe 
fame, Wind.blowing them-in, brings in the Shipping after them. 
s,Althereare vmore of thefein the firm Land of America than in the Iles. The 
iidiansof Cuews fay the Axungia or Fat of them is very good for taking out 
Ciednices and marks, and for the withering of Arms or Legs, /and other 
Difeafes. One-of thefe Birds .at Panama coming to take Sardinas that were a 
curingin the Sua a Negro broke his Wing witha Stick he ‘had in his Hand ; ‘the 
Bedy after ic was clear of ivs Feathers was little ‘bigger than.a Pigeon. : The 
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