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Redbird is as big as a Starling, entirely vermillion red, having 

 a red tuft of feathers on the head and a black spot below the 

 beak, is highly esteemed for its singing and color. 



The shore of Heringe Bay, as well as everywhere else in 

 Maryland abounds in oysters that are bigger and wider than the 

 hand of a tall man, delicious and rich and yet mostly eaten by 

 the negroes. In the Colonel's house we saw a snow-white 

 squirrel he had caught there in that region, besides a great 

 many other rare animals and plants that presented themselves 

 to our view just as if they wanted at our very first entry to bid 

 us welcome to the new world. We could not more than marvel 

 and think of what David saj's in Psalm 24, verse 1: "The 

 earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, the world and they 

 that dwell therein." 



April 24- We on board the ship got for a present some 

 American fishes called Shad, which is a kind of herring, but 

 large and broad and fat as a Swedish Bream. We were also 

 allowed to change our diet now by degrees and to relinquish 

 our polves that we so often had been weary of on the ocean. 

 Polve is a dish consisting of boiled chicken, rice and salted 

 pork, but with no soup; it is a pleasing food if it is not served 

 too frequently. 



April 26. We did go ashore again to Anapolis, a small town 

 in Maryland, which, however, is the only one in the whole 

 Province. 



April 28. We left our ship, the Potopsico Merchant, with 

 our things and went in the long boat to Bohemia Landing. 



May 1. We travelled the way by land from Bohemia over 

 the woodland country to Christina in Pennsylvania, and arrived 

 there in the evening, and in this way through the Lord's 

 gracious guiding during one so long and hazardous journey we 

 had in good health and uninjured completed our entire voyage 

 from Sweden to the region we had in view. The total amount 

 of miles from Lizard in England, where I began my reckoning, 

 unto Christina in America is 5209 English miles. 



May 10. I saw for the first time American Turtle Doves 

 promenading on the river bank by two and two picking sand; 

 they are much smaller than the European, bluish-gray in color, 



