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Goofandeis 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
keeping, it grows very rank. The Pelicans in 
thofe parts are about the fize of a common goofe ; 
their plumage is of a delicate white, except the 
quill-feathers, which are black. ‘The bill is near 
a foot long ; and the bag, which reaches from 
the outer-end of the under. mandible to the breaft, 
is capable of containing upwards of three quarts. 
The fkins of thofe birds are thick and tough, 
and are frequently drefled by the Indians and 
converted into bags, but are never made into 
clothing, though their feathers are as hard, clofe, 
and durable, as thole of a Loon. 
Goosanbers, ufually called in Hudfon’s Bay, 
Shell-drakes. Thofe birds, are very common on 
the fea-coaft, but in the interior parts fly in very 
Jarge flocks, The bill 1s long and narrow, and 
toothed like a faw; and they have a tuft of fea- 
thers at the back of the head, which they can 
erect at pleafure. They are moft excellent divers, 
and fuch great deftroyers of fifh, that they are 
frequently obliged to vomit fome of them before 
they can take flight. Though not much larger 
than the Mallard Duck, they frequently {wallow 
fifh of tix or feven inches long and proportiona- 
bly thick. Thofe that frequent the interior parts 
of the country prey much on crawfifh, which 
are 
ly eatable by a few of my crew, which at that time confifted only of eight 
Englilhmen and two of the home Indians from York-Fort. 
Cuiberland Honfe was the firft inland fettlement the Company made 
from {.;dion’s Fort; and though begun on fo imail a fcale, yet upon it 
and Iiudicn’s Houfe, which is fituated beyond it, upwards of feventy 
men were now employed. 
