ti6 TRAVELS IN 
oiit knowing what was to become of me, I 
purfued my way, as it were, mechanically | 
and I had the good fortune to reach the bp-? 
pofite bank : an inch more would have in-? 
fallibly drowned me, I rufhed upon my 1 
bald-buzzard ; and the ple^fure of fecuring my 
prey, foon effaced every remembrance of fear 
and danger, I was, however, obliged to pull 
off all my clothes, and to fpread them out to 
dry : in the mean time I amufed myfelf in 
examining my prize ; and, when my clothes 
were perfedlly dry, I returned without any 
danger to my habitation. - When I arrived, I 
was told that feveral of my people were gone 
in purfuit of a buffaloe, which they had met 
with; and, towards evening, I faw them re- 
turn, loaded with the limbs of the animal, 
which they had cut up on the fpot. Next 
morning, very early, I did not negle£l to fend 
in fearch of the fragments, which they had left 
to attrad: birds of prey. This method procured 
me the male bald-buzzard ; which differed 
from the female in nothing but the general 
diftin<fiion of carnivorous birds, that qf being 
always a third fmaller. I fhall give a figure 
and defcription of the latter, under the name 
pf Vocjfer. 
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