TRAVELS IN 
68 
. CHAP. III. 
Being now in readinefs to profecute our voyage 
to St. John’s, we fat fail in a handfome pleafure- 
boat, manned with four flout negro flaves, to row 
in cafe of necefhty. After paffing Amelia Nar- 
rows we had a pleafant run acrofs fort George’s 
found, where, obferving the pelicans billing, Mr. 
Egan fhot one of them, which he took into the 
boat. I was greatly furprifcd on obferving the 
pouch or fack, which hangs under the bill : it is 
capable of being expanded to a prodigious fize. 
One of the people on board, faid, that he had feen 
mere than half a bufhel of bran crammed into one 
of their pouches. The body is larger than that of 
a tame goofe, the legs extremely lliort, the feet 
webbed, the bill of a great length, bent inwards 
like a feythe, the wings extend near feven feet from 
tip to tip, the tail is very fhort, the head, neck, and, 
breafl, nearly white, the body of a light bluifh grey, 
except the quill feathers of the wings, which are 
black. They feem to be of the gull kind, both in 
form and flrutture, as well as manner of fifhing. 
The evening following we landed on the main. 
It was a promontory of high land, covered with 
orange-trees, and projecting into the found, forming 
a convenient port. We pitched our tent under the 
fhelter of a fared of Live Oaks, Palms, and Sweet 
Bays ; and having, in the courfe of the day, procured 
plenty of fea fowl, fuch as curlews, wiJlets, fnipes, 
fand birds, and others, we had them dreffed for 
flipper, and feafoned with excellent cyders, which 
lay in heaps in the water, clofe to our landing-place* 
