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feen any of the old Pelicans eaten ; but the young ; 

 ones are faid to be Meat good enough, but I have 

 never eaten of any of them. 

 Cormo- There are Cormorants alfo among the Samballoes, 

 rams. w hich for Size and Shape are like Ducks, but ra- 

 ther lefs. They are black, but have a white Spot 

 on the Breaft. Tho' they are Web-footed, as other 

 Water-fowl are, yet they pitch on Trees and 

 Shrubs by the Water-fide. I have never heard 

 of any one's eating of thefe, for their Flefh is 

 thought to be too coarfe and rank. 

 sen Gulls There are a great many Sea-Gulls alfo and Sea- 

 ands<^- pj cs ^ on that Coaft ; both of them much like ours, 

 but rather fmaller. The Flefh of both thefe is eat- 

 en commonly enough, and 'tis tolerable good Meat, 

 but of a Fifty Tafte, as Sea-fowl ufually are. Yet 

 to correft this Tafte, when we kill'd any Sea-Gulls, 

 Sea-Pies, Boobies, or the like, on any Shore, we 

 us'd to make a Hole in the hot Sand, and there bu- 

 ry them for 8 or io Hours, with their Feathers on, 

 and Guts in them : And upon dreffing them after- 

 wards, we found the Flefh tender, and he Tafte 

 not fo rank nor filhy. 

 Bats. There are Bats, on the Ifthmus, the Bodies of 

 which are as large as Pidgeons, and their Wings 

 extended to a proportionable Length and Breadth ; 

 with Gaws at the Joints of the Wings, by which 

 they cling to any Thing. They much haunt old 

 Houfes and deferted Plantations. 

 Flying In- Of flying Infe£ts, befide the Moskitoes or Gnats 

 fe<fts. , before-mention'd, there are up and down the Ifth- 

 mus Wafps and Beetles, and Flies of feveral Kinds : 

 particularly the fhining Fly, which fhines in the 

 Shining Night like a Glow-worm ; and where there are ma- 

 Fly, ny of tfiem in a Thicket, they appear in the Night 

 like fo hmny Sparks of Fire, 



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