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meister ; on the undermost part of its bill is a small knob or 

 rising : about his black eyes he hath a red circle, as the 

 Burgermeistcr ; and he hath but three claws, joy ncd together 

 with a black skin. 



The legs are also black, and but short ; the tail is some- 

 what long and broad, like a fan. 



All the belly is as white as snow ; the wings and back are 

 grey, and the point of the wings black. He is almost as big 

 as an ordinary meio, but something less than the Strunt-jager. 

 When we cut the fat off from the whales, we saw abundance 

 of them fly by the ship, and heard them cry. 



When the seamen have a mind to catch some of them, they 

 bait their hooks with a piece of whales fat, and so tye the 

 hooks to a line, and fling it into the sea, and so they catch 

 not only these but all the other birds of prey. He flieth with 

 small wings as a common mew, and dives not. His food is 

 the fat of the whale. He is hunted by the Strunt-jager (in 

 English dung -hunter^, who leave him not till he dungs, which 

 the Strunt-jager eats.^ 



This I could hardly believe at first, until afterwards I saw 

 it my self very often. That which I drew was catched by 

 our ship-boys with a hook, in the South Haven. I did pecu- 

 liarly observe in this bird that it used to swim upon the water, 

 and hold its head up against the wind if it was never so great 

 a storm ; and so we found whole flocks of them swim upon 

 the water together. 



This is not only to be understood of this bird, but also of 

 all the rest, for they look against the wind that their feathers 

 may not be blown asunder and opened ; for if they should sit 

 or swim with the wind, their feathers M'ould be blown asunder 

 by the cold wind, and so the cold would get in between them 

 to their skin; which perhaps might prejudice their health, for 

 birds are covered with their feathers as men are with their 

 clothes. 



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