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t'lqugh few of the two laft mentioned kinds of birds ; 

 but from that time we had no more fight of them tiil 

 the evening of the i6th, when in the latitude of 4" 

 50', nearly, we faw a different kind larger than the 

 pardelas ; but from the flow motion of its wings we 

 concluded it to be a land bird. It was at too great a 

 diftance for us clearly to diftinguilli its colours and 

 form. We wxre, however, notwithftanding this fig- 

 nal, under a neceffity of (leering W. when after a run 

 of 102 leagues we made the ifland. The following 

 days we never failed of feeing a fev/ of the fame fpecies; 

 but on the 19th their numbers increafedi They were 

 wholly black, except a few brown feathers on the 

 wings. Among thefe birds we obferved one larger 

 than the reft, with a long neck, a prominent body, 

 and its whole plumage of a dark brown : it moved its 

 wings (lowly, and every way refem^bled a cormorant. 

 We faw him feverai times dart down with great rapi- 

 dity to catch nfn ; and on the 29th in the morning we 

 were entertained with the fight of great numbers of 

 them, whorn hunger rendered very alert in the fame ex- 

 crcife. From the time of feeing the firil, till we were 

 diredly S. of the ifland, we failed 33 leagues, the 

 greatefi diflarice thefe birds are known to venture out 

 to fea. On the 20th in the evening;, beins: betwixt ten 

 and eleven leagues from, the ifland, we faw feverai birds 

 refembling the guanaes already defcribed j and at fun- 

 fet great fiscks of them were flying towards the W. 

 whence we concluded that we were not far from the 

 ifland. Th^fe birds, which the French call Fou, and 

 the Englifh Booby, are about the iize of a goofe, have 

 a large and curved wing, all ov^er of a dark brown, and 

 in flying ufe a great deal of motion with their wings-, 

 but when they attempt to catch a fifh, they dive with 

 the fame rapidity as the guanaes. 



About tvvo hours before v.e made the ifland, we 

 faw feverai Rabij uncos, a bird, which by always keep- 

 ing near the Paorc, indicates its proximity. They are 



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