68 
TRAVELS IN 
C H A P. in. 
Being now In readinefs to profecute our voyage 
to St. John's, we fet fail in a handfome pleafure- 
boat, manned with four ftout negro Haves, to row 
in cafe of neceffity. After palling Amelia Nar- 
rows, we had a pleafant run acrofs fort George's 
found, where, obferving the pelicans hilling, Mr. 
Egan fhot one of them, which he took into the 
boat. I was greatly furprifed on obferving the 
pouch or fack, which hangs under the bill : it is 
capable of being expanded to a prodigious fize. 
One of the people on board, faid, that he had feen 
more than half a bufhel of bran crammed into one 
of their pouches. The body is larger than that of 
a tame goofe, the legs extremely fhort, the feet 
webb&d, the bill of a great length, bent inwards 
like a fey the, the wings extend near feven feet from 
tip to tip, the tail is very fhort, the head, neck, and 
bread:, nearly white, the body of a light bluifh gray, 
except the quill feathers of the wings, which are 
black. They feem to be of the gull kind, both in 
form and ftructure, as well as manner of fifhing. 
The evening following, we landed on the main. 
It was a promontory of high land, covered with 
orange-trees, and projecling into the found, forming 
a convenient port. We pitched our tent under the 
ihelter of a foreft of Live Oaks, Palms, and Sweet 
Bays ; and having in the courfe of the day, procured 
plenty of fea fowl, fuch as curlews, willets, fnipes, 
land birds, and others ; we had them dreffed for 
fupper, and feafoned with excellent oyfters, which 
lay in heaps in the water, clofe to our landing-place. 
The 
