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ílantly Taw fome though few of the two laft mentioned 

 kinds of birds; but from that time we had no more 

 fight of them till the evening of the 16th, when in the 

 latitude of 4° ;^o', nearly, we faw a dif?.-ren,t kind 

 larger than the Fárdelas; but from thp flow motion of 

 its wings we concluded it to be a land bird. It was ac 

 too great a diftance for us clearly to diftinguifh its co- 

 lours and form. We were, however, notwithftanding 

 this fignal, under a neceíTity of fleering W. when after 

 a run of 102 leagues we made the ifland. The follow- 

 ing days we never failed of feeing a few of the fame 

 fpecies J but on the 19th their numbers increafed. They . 

 were wholly black, except a few brown feathers on the 

 wings. Am.ofig thefe birds we obferved one larger 

 than the reft, v.'ith a long neck, a prominent body, 

 and its whole plumage of a dark brown: it moved its 

 wings flowly, and every v/ay refembled a cormorant. 

 We faw him fcveral times dart down with great rapi- 

 dity to catch fifn ; and on the 29th in the morning we 

 were entertained with the fight of great numbers of 

 them, whom hunger rendered very alert in the fame ex- 

 ercife. From the time of feeing the firft, till we were 

 diredly S. of the ifland, wt lailed 23 Ic'agucs, the 

 greateil riillance thefe birds are known to venture out 

 to fea. On the 20th in the evening, being betwixt ten 

 and eleven leagues from the ifland, we faw feveral birds 

 rcfembling the Guanaes already defciibed; and at fun- 

 fet great flocks of them were flying towards the W. 

 whence we concluded that we were not far from the 

 ifland. Thefe birds, which the French call Fou, and 

 the Englifh Booby, are about the fize of a goofe, have 

 a large and curved wing, all over of a dark brown, and 

 in flying ufe a great deal of motion with their wings j 

 but when they attempt to catch a ñfh, they dive with 

 the iame rapidity as the Guanaes. 



About tv/o hours before vvc made the ifland, we 

 faw leveral Rabijuncos, a bird, which by always keep- 

 ing near the fhore, indicates its proximity. They are 

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