SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



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 and yet by flying do avoid the unsatiablenesse of the 

 bonito. Of the bigger sort of these fishes wee tooke 

 many, which both night and day flew into the sailes 

 of our ship, and there was not one of them which was 

 not woorth a bonito : for being put upon a hooke 

 drabling in the water, the bonito would leap thereat, 

 and so was taken. Also, we tooke many with a white 

 cloth made fast to a hooke, which being tied so short 

 in the water, that it might leape out and in, the 

 greedie bonito thinking it to be a flying fish leapeth 

 thereat, and so is deceived. We tooke also dolphins Dolphins. 

 which are of very goodly colour and proportion to 

 behold, and no lesse delicate in taste. Fowles also 

 there be many, both upon land and upon sea : but 

 concerning them on the land I am not able to name 

 them, because my abode was there so short. But for 

 the fowle of the fresh rivers, these two I noted to be 

 the chiefe, whereof the Flemengo is one, having all Fkmingo. 

 red feathers, and long red legs like a heme, a necke 

 according to the bill, red, whereof the upper neb 

 hangeth an inch over the nether ; and an egript, which The egript. 

 is all white as the swanne, with legs like to an hearn- 

 shaw, and of bignesse accordingly, but it hath in her 

 taile feathers of so fine a plume, that it passeth the 

 estridge his feather. Of the sea-fowle above all other 

 not common in England, I noted the pellicane, which The pellicane. 

 is fained to be the lovingst bird that is ; which rather 

 then her yong should want, wil spare her heart bloud 

 out of her belly : but for all this lovingnesse she is 

 very deformed to beholde ; for she is of colour russet : 

 notwithstanding in Guinea I have scene of them as 

 white as a swan, having legs like the same, and a 

 body like a hearne, with a long necke, and a thick long 

 beake, from the nether jaw whereof downe to the 

 breast passeth a skinne of such a bignesse, as is able 

 to receive a fish as big as ones thigh, and this her big 

 throat and long bill doeth make her seem so ougly. 

 Here I have declared the estate of Florida, and the 



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