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figures and defcriptions of the three fpecles of 
indicators which I know. 
My Hottentot, Klaas, on returning from 
hunting, brought me an eagle which he had 
killed. It was a fpecies I had never before 
feen, and which no author has deficribed. For 
this fervice, I rewarded him in a proper man- 
ner, and gave him a ration of tobacco j not 
that I ought to be generous towards a man 
whom I tenderly loved, and to whom I could 
not refufe the fmaileft favour, without being 
cruel, but by his example to excite all my 
people to make fome difcoveries. 
This bird, which was entirely black, feemed 
to me, by its chara£terifl:ics, to belong rather to 
the vulture than the eagle kind ; but I knew 
that it differed in its manners. In every thing 
elfe, the analogy is very great ; for, when ne- 
cefTary, the eagle becomes a vulture ; that is to 
fay, when prefled by hunger, if nothing bet- 
ter occurs, for the moment, it feeds as well as 
any other bird of prey upon rotten carrion ; 
and it is a great error to imagine that it lives 
only upon what It catches itfelf. When I 
caufed the remains of the large animals we 
had killed to be fcattered in the fields, in or- 
der to attrad carnivorous birds, eagles and 
butcher-^ 
