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of the Iftand of Barbadocs. 
‘much bigger than an humble Bee, her body long, het wings {mall and 
fharp, of a fallen fad green, no pleafant colours on her; her manner of 
feeding is, juft as aBee, putting her bill into abloflom or a flower, 
taftes aslightly as a Bee, never fitting, but purring with her wings, all 
the time fhe ftayes with the flower; and the motion of her wings areas 
nimble and fwift, as aBee : We have no way to take her, but by fhoo- 
ting fand out ofa Gun at her, which mazes her for the prefent , that 
you may take her upsbut thereisno way to keep her alive,het feeding 
being fuch, asnone can giveher but herfelf. Now. for the Birds that } 
live upon the outward verge of the Ifland,I have not much to fay.Some+ 
times Teals come to our Pands, three or four cotiple together, but } 
hever go away 3 for when wefeethem,we takea gun,and coming near, | 
fhoot them, and the report of the gun frights, and makes thofe that 
arealive fly away, andfetchoneturn, and come back to fee their fel=| 
| lows dead, and alight to. them, and fo we fhoot and fhoot again till all 
| be kill’d ; for they will alwayes come back to fee thei dead ffietids; | . 
| Thelike we do with thofe birds we call Oxen and Kine, which comie 
tousinlike manner. Small Swallows we have now and then, but 
| fomewhat different from ours in colour. iets seg he 
|. But there isa Bird they call, a Manof war , and he is much bigger 
{than a Heron, and flies out to Sea upon difcoveries, (for they never 
{light upon the Sea) tofeé what thips-are, coming to the Ifland 5 and 
when they return, the Iflanders look out, andiay, 4 thip isconiing ; 
and findit true. Ihave feen oneofthem, as high as I ould look, to 
miect us twetity leagues from land; and fome otheis, almoft as big as 
‘Ducks, that in an evening came in a flock of twenty, orthere about, 
and they made divers turns aboutthethip, a little before Siin-fetting 5 
-and when it grew dark, they lighted upon the ribs of the fhip, and 
with little noofes of packthted, the Saylers caught them; they were 
very fat and good, 2 ee | ein se ae | 
- Though the Bat beno Bard, yet fhe flyes with wings, and alwayes a 
little before Sun-(erting, ar which time they come out of holes, chim- 
‘heys, and hollow trees, aad will raifethemtoa great height, feeding 
themfelves with flyes that they find in the ait, at that time of the 
evening. | SS , 
Having done with Beafts and Birds , we will enquire what other 
leficr Aninials or Infeéts there areupontheIfland, of which, Snakes 
are the chief, becaufe the largeit; and I have feen fome ofthofea yatd 
andahalf long. Thedaly harm they do, is toour Pigeon-houfes, and 
}tiilk-pans; fothat if we leave any holeinthe bottom of the houfe, 
Where they can conie in, they will get to the nefts, and devour the 
{young Pigeons, if they be not over big. . And yet ‘tis {trange to fee; 
what great morfels they will {wallow $ flide they will up againft a 
wall, ifitbe but perpendicular; butif it be declining outward, they 
cannot get up, but will fall back teri foot high, if they be hindred by 
any {tooping of the wall; for which reafon vve make jetties, near the 
'|top of fuch toonis;as vve vvill keep them outof; they have climbed 
-|fix foot high upon the outfide of a vvall, come in ae vvindovv,dovvn 
{on the infide, skim our milk pans, and avvay again : Till vve took 
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one of theni there, vve knevv not by vvhat means our pans vvere thus | 
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nimals and 
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