NORTH AMERICA. 
Ms retinue followed ; but unfortunately for their 
chief, he led them with prodigious fpeed out to- 
wards the favanna very near us, and when paffing 
by, the lucky old hunter fired and laid him prof- 
trate upon the green turf, but a few yards from us. 
His affrighted followers at the inftant fprang off in 
every direction, fir earning away like meteors or 
phantoms, and we quickly loft fight of them. He 
opened his body, took out the entrails, and placed 
the carcafe in the fork of a tree, cafting his frock 
or hunting ftiirt over to protect it from the vukures 
and crows, who follow the hunter as regularly as 
his own fhade. 
Our companions foon arrived. We fet forward 
again, enjoying the like fcenes we had already pall ; 
obferved parties of Siminole horfes courfmg over 
the plains, and frequently faw deer, turkeys, and 
wolves, but they knew their fafety here, keeping 
far enough out of our reach. The wary, fharp 
fighted crane, circumfpeclly obferved our progrefs. 
We faw a female of them fitting on her neft, and 
the male, her mate, watchfully traverfing back- 
wards and forwards, at a fin all diftance ; they fuf- 
fered us to approach near them before they arofe, 
when they fpread their wings, running and tipping 
the ground with their feet fome time, and then 
mounted aloft, foaring round and round over the 
neft. They fit upon only two eggs at a time, which 
are very large, long, and pointed at one end, of a 
pale afh colour, powdered or fpeckled with brown. 
The manner of forming their nefls and fitting is 
very lingular : choofing a tuflbck, and there forming 
a rude heap of dry grafs, or fuch like materials, 
near as high as their body is from the ground, when 
|ianding upon their fee.t, ou the ' fummjt of this 
they 
