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manner of difference betwixt the wild turkies and 

 the tame ones ; only the wild are ever of one color, 

 viz : a dark gray or brown, and are excellent food. 

 They feed on acorns, huckleberries, and many oth- 

 er sorts of berries that Carolina affords. The eggs 

 taken from the nest and hatched under a hen will 

 yet retain a wild nature, and commonly leave you 

 and run wild at last, and will never be got into a 

 house to roost but always perch on some high tree 

 hard by the house, and separate themselves from 

 the tame sort, although, at the same time, they 

 tread and breed together. I have been informed 

 that if you take these wild eggs when just on the 

 point of being hatched, and dip them (for some 

 small time) in a bowl of milk-warm water, it 

 will take off their wild nature and make them as 

 tame and domestic as the others. Some Indians 

 have brought these wild breed, hatched at home, 

 to be a decoy to bring others to roost near their 

 cabins, which they have shot. But to return to 

 the water fowl. 



Fishermen are like a duck, but have a narrow 

 bill, with setts of teeth. They live on very small 

 fish which they catch as they swim along. They 

 taste fishy. The best way to order them, is, upon 

 occasion, to pull out the oil box from the rump 

 and then bury them five or six hours under ground. 

 Then they become tolerable. 



Of divers there are two sorts ; the one pied, the 

 other gray ; both good meat. 



Kaft fowl includes all the sorts of small ducks 



