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following in their wake ; and that once, when it came on to 

 blow, these boats were so overloaded that, to prevent their 

 foundering, the people were obliged to throw a large portion 

 of the birds overboard. Lord Huntingfield mentioned, more- 

 over, that he himself in one instance killed no fewer than 

 five birds with a single ball ; and that in another, a bird in 

 flying past touched the muzzle of his gun-barrel with its 

 wing. 



