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bulkiest, and most beautiful ; its description ; chiefly found 

 in America ; once known on all the coasts of Europe ; in 

 deserted regions the flamingos live in a state of society, and 

 under a better policy than others of the feathered cre'ation ; 

 delicacy of its flesh ; when the first Europeans in America 

 killed one, the rest regarded its fall in fixed astonishment ; 

 thus the fowler levelled the flock, before any began to es- 

 cape ; it is now one of the scarcest and shyest birds in the 

 world ; places it chiefly inhabits ; always appoint one as a 

 watch, who gives notice of danger with a voice as shrill as 

 a trumpet ; Negroes fond of their company, and think their 

 society a gift from Heaven, and protection from evils ; those 

 killed hidden in the long grass, to prevent ill treatment from 

 the blacks discovering the murder of their sacred birds ; are 

 frequently taken with nets ; refuse all nourishment when 

 taken ; pine and die, if left to themselves in captivity ; its 

 tongue is the most celebrated delicacy ; a dish of them, says 

 Labat, is a feast for an Emperor ; a Roman Emperor had 

 fifteen hundred flamingos' tongues served up in a dish ; 

 their tongue larger than that of any other bird ; its flesh ; 

 they move in rank like cranes ; appear in flight of a bright 

 red as a burning coal ; manner of^feeding very singular ; 

 savages of Canada call it tococo, and why ; time of breeding, 

 and their nests ; number of their eggs ; colour when young ; 

 then become familiar in five or six days, eat out of the hand, 

 and drink sea-water ; but generally pine away, wanting their 

 natural supplies, and die in a short time ; savages make or- 

 naments of their plumes ; and the skin sometimes serves the 

 Europeans to make muffs, iv. 329. 



Flea can draw a chain a hundred times heavier than itself, and 

 eat ten times its own size of provision in one day, v. 392. 

 Its description, 408. Arborescent water flea, or monocu- 

 lus, described, 423. Leuwenhoeck has discovered above six 

 thousand facets on the cornea of a flea, vi. 72. 



Flemings, possessed the art of cloth-working in a superior de- 

 gree ; were invited to settle here, ii. 258. 



Flesh dries at Cusco like wood, without corrupting, ii. 122. 

 The Persians esteem that of the wild ass so highly that its 

 delicacy is a proverb among them, 205. Of the fallow deer 

 preferred to any other, 327. Of the roebuck, between one 

 and two years old, allowed the greatest delicacy known, 

 338. Of the tiger is good for food ; some hold it superior 

 to mutton, 427. Of dogs, sold in shambles all over China, 

 and the negroes of the coast of Guinea esteem it a delicacy, 

 as likewise that of toads, lizards, and tigers, iii. 24. That 

 of the wolf very indifferent ; no creature known to eat it but 

 the wolf himself, 45. Of the squash, tolerable food, 99. 

 That of the glutton not fit to be eaten, 113. Of the hare, 

 religiously abstained from by Jews, ancient Britons, and 



