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{hot and brought on Board two of them 

 which eat like Land-pork, except fome filhy 

 tafte it had. They were (hap'd much like 

 Swine, and had fhort Hair more briftly 

 than that of Seals 5 and likethem had finny 

 Stumps to fwim with, and were of a black 

 Colour. The Country hereabouts is well wa- 

 ter'd, but without any Inhabitants. Here is 

 notwithstanding abundance of black Cattle, 

 of which for feveral Scores of Leagues we 

 obferv'd many Herds 5 with Deer alfo and 

 Eftridges. 



tftridgcs. We faw a great many of thefe Eftridges, 

 and found abundance of their Eggs on the 

 Sand i For there (he drops her Eggs upon 

 the Ground, and 'tis faid hie never takes 

 any farther Care of them • but that they are 

 hatched by the Sun, and the young one 

 fo foon as hatched follows the firft Crea- 

 ture it meets with. I my felf had fome- 

 times a great many young Eftridges follow- 

 ing me. They are a foolilh Bird 5 and 

 will follow a Deer or any Creature. The 

 old Birds are here very large : I meafur d 

 the Thigh of one of them, and thought it 

 little lefs than my own. We have had fe- 

 veral of them on board, and fome we eat § 

 but the old ones were very rank, courfe 

 Food. Some fancy that the Eftridge eat Iron : 

 { believe juft as truly as Poultry eat Peb- 

 ble Stones, not as Food, but for Digefti- 

 on, and to Cerve as MilMlone.s, or Grinders, 



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