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Ms retinue followed; but unfortunately for their 
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 prof- 
irate upon the green turf, but a few yards from ns. 
His affrighted followers at the inilant fprang off in 
every direction, ftreaming 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, -caftan g his frock 
or hunting fhirt over to protect it from the vultures 
and crows, who follow the hunter as regularly as 
his own ftiade. 
Our companions foon arrived. We fet forward 
again, enjoying the like fcenes we had already paft ? 
obferved parties of Siminole norfes courfing over 
the plains, and frequently faw deer, turkeys, and 
wolves, but they knew their fafety here, keeping 
far enough out of our reach. The wary, fharp- 
frghted crane, circumfpedtly obferved our progreiw 
We faw a female of them fitting on her neft, and 
the male, her mate, watchfully traverfing back- 
wards and forwards, at a final! diftance $ they buf- 
fered us to approach near them before they arofe, 
when they fpread their wings, running and tipping 
the ground with their feet fome time, and them 
mounted aloft, foaring round and round over the 
neft. They fit upon only two eggs at a time, which 
are very large, long, and pointed at one end, of a 
pale afh colour, powdered or fpeckled with brown. 
The manner of forming their nefts and fitting is 
very fingular: choofmg a tuffock, and there forming 
a rude heap of dry grabs, or fuch like materials, 
near as high as their body is from the ground, when 
landing upon theft feet, on the ftimmlt of this 
, ; } O 4 they 
