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kind of webbe-f ooted Fowle there is, of the bigness 

 of an English green Plouer, or Sea-Meawe, which 

 all the Summer wee saw not, and in the darkest 

 nights of Nouember and December (for in the 

 night they only feed) they would come forth, but 

 not flye f arre from home, and houering in the ayre, 

 and oure the Sea, made a strange hollow and harsh 

 howling. Their color is inclining to Russet, with 

 white belhes, as are likewise the long Feathers of 

 their wings Russet and White, these gather them- 

 selues together and breed in those Hands which are 

 high, and so f arre alone into the Sea, that the Wilde 

 Hogges cannot swimme ouer them, and there in the 

 ground they haue their Burrowes, like Conyes in a 

 Warren, and so brought in the loose Mould, though 

 not so deepe; which Birds with a light bough in a 

 darge night (as in our Lowbelling) wee caught. I 

 haue beene at the taking of three hundred in an 

 houre, and wee might haue laden our Boates. Our 

 men found a prettie way to take them, which was by 

 standing on the Rockes or Sands by the Sea side, 

 and hollowing, laughing, and making the strangest 

 out-cry that possibly they could; with the noyse 

 whereof the Birds would come flocking to that 

 place, and settle vpon the very armes and head of 

 him that so cryed, and still creepe neerer and neerer, 

 answering the noyse themselues : by which our men 

 would weigh them with their hand, and which 

 weighed heauiest they tooke for the best, and let 

 the others alone, and so our men would take twentie 

 dozen in two houres of the chief est of them : and they 



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