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minique, where they flee by flockes,as pigeons do here. 1 

 To conclude, birdes with their wings may goe where 

 they will; and truely many kindes might well nafle the 

 gulph 3 feeing it is certaine,as Plinie affii mcth, that there 

 are many that paffc the fca , and goe into ftrange regi 

 ons, although I have not read that any fowle hathpaC 

 fed by flight fb great a gulph, as is the Indian Ocean,yct 

 hold I it not altogether impoflible, feeing the common 

 opinion of mariners , that you (hall finde them twoo 

 hundred leagues and more from the land, And as Ari- 

 ftotle dooth teach, that birdes endure the water cafely, 

 having little refpiration, as wee fee in fea fowle, which 

 dive and remain long vnder the water. Even fo we may 

 fey , that the fowle which bee at this prefent vppon the 

 thaine land, and in the Hands at the Indies 9 might padc 

 the fca, refting themfelves in fomc fmall Hands , or vp- 

 on fome land which they difcovered by a natural! in- 

 ftin& (as Plinie reporteth of (bme)or peradventurc fal 

 ling into the water, when they were weary of flying, 

 and after beganne their flight anew when they had alit- 

 tle refted. As for the fowles which we fee in the Hands, 

 where there are no beads, I beleeve certainly that they 

 pafled by one of the forcfiyde meanes . Bin for other 

 birdes which we finde vppon the maine land, efpecial- 

 ly thofe whofe flight is fhorte , it is more credible that 

 they came thither as the beads did , which are of the 

 lamekindes that wee have in Europe. For at the Indies 

 there are great birds, very heavy, as Eftr idges, whereof 

 there are many in Peru ; which doe vfe fometimes to 

 terrific the IndtAn flicepe as they do goe with their bur 

 thens. 



But leaving thefc birds that govern themfelves w ith- 

 out the care of man, but oncly for hawking,Iet-vs now 



X z fpcake 



