MAN OF WAR BIRD. 
Frigates, by boiling these birds in great caul- 
drons: it sells very dear in our islands.'* 
These birds had long possessed a small 
island at the extremity of Guadaloupe, to 
which all the Frigates of the neighbourhood 
came to repose at night, and to nestle in the 
season. It was called the Islet of Frigates : 
and it still bears that name, though they have 
changed their retreat ; for, in 1643, and 1644, 
many persons hunted them so closely, that 
they were obliged to forsake the place. 
