INTRODUCTION”, 
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of a Siminole when hunting a deer, advancing with 
flow heps obliquely, or under cover of denfe foli- 
age, and behind the limbs, and when the bee was 
engaged in probing a flower, he would leap nearer, 
and then iriftan-tly retire out of fight, under a leaf or 
behind a branch, at the fame time keeping a lharp 
eye upon me. When he had now gotten within two 
feet of his prey, and the bee was intent on fipping 
the delicious nefiar from a flower, with his back 
next the fpider, he mftantiy fprang upon him, and 
grafped him over the back and fhoulder, when for 
fome moments they both difappeared. I expedied 
the bee had carried off his enemy, but to my fur- 
prife, they both together rebounded back again, 
fufpended at the extremity of a firong elaftic thread 
or web, which the fpider had artfully let fall, or 
fixed on the twig, the inftant he leaped from it : the 
rapidity of the bee’s wings, endeavouring to extricate 
liimfelf, made them both together appear as a mov- 
ing vapour, until the bee became fatigued by whirl- 
ing round, firffc one way and then back again : at 
length, in about a quarter of an hour, the bee quite 
exhaufted by his froggies, and the repeated wounds 
of the butcher, became motionlefs, and quickly ex- 
pired in the arms of the devouring fpider, who, 
afcending the rope with his game, retired to feaft on 
it under cover’ of the leaves ; and perhaps before 
night, became himfelf the delicious evening repaffc 
of a bird or lizard. 
Birds are in general focial and benevolent crea- 
tures j intelligent, ingenious, volatile, active be- 
ings ; and this order of animal creation confifts of 
various nations, bands, or tribes, as may be ob- 
fervedirom their different ftrudture, manners, and 
languages, or voice ; each nation, though < fubdi- 
vided into many different tribes, retaining its ge- 
8 neral 
