NORTH AMERICA. 
Ms retinue followed; but unfortunately for theii 
chief, he led them with prodigious fpeed out to- 
wards the favanna very near us, and when paffing 
by, the lucky old hunter fired and laid him pros- 
trate upon the green turf, but a few yards from us.. 
His affrighted followers at the inflant fprang off in 
every direction, (beaming away like meteors or 
phantoms, and we quickly loft fight of them. He 
opened his body, took out the entrails, and placed 
the carcafe in the fork of a tree, calling his frock 
or hunting fhirt over to protect it from the vultures 
and crows, who follow the hunter as regularly as 
his own fhade. 
Our companions foon arrived. We fet forward 
again, enjoying the like fcenes we had already pail ; 
ohferved parties of Siminole horfes courfing over 
the plains, and frequently law deer, turkeys, and 
wolves, but they knew their fafety here, keeping 
far enough out of our reach. The wary, fharp 
lighted crane, cu'cumfpe&ly ohferved our progrefs. 
We faw a female of them fitting on her rieft, and 
the male, her mate, watchfully traverfing back- 
wards and forwards, at a fmall diflance; they fuf- 
fered us to approach near them before they a role, 
when they fpread their wings, running and tipping 
the ground with their feet fome time,, and then 
mounted aloft, foaring round and round over the 
neff. They fit upon only two eggs at a time, which 
are very large, long, and pointed at one end, of a 
pale alii colour, powdered or fpeckled with brown. 
The manner of forming their nefts and fitting is 
yery fmgular; choofing a tuffbck, and there forming 
4 rude heap of dry grafs, or loch like materials, 
near as high as their body is from the ground, when 
(landing upon their feet, on the fummit of this 
O 4 they 
