vol. xxxin 



1915 



Wright, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. 75 



day, unless he has a dog trained for the purpose. When only 

 wounded, they quickly disappear, and, accelerating their motion 

 by a sort of half flight, run with so much speed that the swiftest 

 hunter cannot overtake them. The traveller driving the declivity 

 of one of the Alleghanies, may sometimes see several of them before 

 him, evincing no desire to get out of the road; but on alighting in 

 the hopes of shooting them, he soon finds that all pursuit is vain." 

 Finally, in 1843, Maximilian, Prince of Wied, when at Borden- 

 town, Penn., says ! " Fans, are, in fact, an article of luxury, and are 

 purchased in the towns; they are made of the tail feathers of the 

 wild turkey, the crane or the swan, 



Virginia and Maryland. 



These furnish numerous records in the seventeenth century. 

 Only one note precedes this period and this occurs in Thomas 

 Heriot's " A Briefe and True Relation of the New Found Land of 

 Virginia, London, 1588." He gives 2 "Of Foule. Turkie cockes 

 and Turkie henncs." The first note of the 17th century is that of 

 Master George Percy in his "Observations gathered out of A 

 Discourse of the Plantation of the Southern Colonie in Virginia by 

 the English 1606" wherein he asserts 3 "We found store of Turkie 

 nests and many egges." "A Gentleman of the Colony" (Gabriel 

 Archer) in " A relay tion of the Discovery" 4 "founde (1607 May 22) 

 a,n Uet, on which were many Turkeys" and later he again writes 

 "we come to the Ilet mentyoned which I call Turley He." In 

 1612, Captain John Smith in " A Map of Virginia With a Descrip- 

 tion of the Countrey " remarks 5 " wilde Turkies as bigge as our 

 tame," and finds that the Indian arrows are "headed with .... 

 the spurres of a Turkey 



The interesting Wm. Strachey in 1610?-1612? gives us three 

 notes. First of all he says, 6 " We have seene some (Indian women) 



i Early Western Travels. XXII, p. 68 (orig. Part I, p. 19.) 

 » Heriot, Thomas, etc. Reprint London, 1900, p. 41. 



'Arber, Edward. Capt. John Smith, etc. Works 1608-1631, Eng. Scholars 

 Library. No. 16, p. lxvi. 



Mbid., pp. xli, xlii. 



s ibid., pp. 60, 68, 70. 



> Strachey, William. Historie of Travaile into Virginia. Hakluyt Soc. Lon- 

 don. 1849, pp. 65, 72, 125. 



