MAN OF WAR BIRp. 
epwards, or glides horizontally. It often 
roams to a distance of several hundred leagues. 
These immense excursions are performed by a 
single flight ; and, as the day is insufficient, it 
pursues it's route during the darkness of th<e 
night ; and never halts on the sea, but when 
invited by the abundance of prey." 
Labat remarks, that it cannot rest on the 
water, like the water-fowl; since it's feet are 
not calculated for swimming, and it's wings 
are so 1 rge that they require room to begin 
their motion : if, therefore, it fell on the water, 
it's efforts would be fruitless, and it could 
fjever rise again. We may hence conclude that, 
as it is found three or four hundred leagues 
from land, it must describe a track of seven or 
eight hundred leagues, before it can halt." 
These birds roam so far distant from land, in 
pursuit of the Flying-Fishes. Du Tertre 
says — ** though the Frigate rises to a vast 
height in the air, and ftea beyond the reach 
of our sight; it, notwithstanding, descries 
clearly where the Dolphins are in pursuit of 
the Flying-Fish; it then shoots down, like 
lightning. 
