Darien, . 
Yucatan,, 
North 
America,. 
, of 1 the Turkey. 79. • 
tlie tame ; • arid that they were {hot with arrows 
or guns*. I cannot learn the- time when Fer- 
nandez • wrote. It mud: be between the years 
1 555 an d 1 5 9 B , the period of Philip’s reign. 
pedro de ciesa mentions Turkies on the Ifih- 
mus of Darien t- lery, aPortuguefe author, afferts, 
that they are found in Brazil, and gives them an 1 
Indian name J;;; but fince I can difcover no traces 
of them in that diligent and excellent naturalifl 
MArcgrave, who refided long in that country, 
I mull deny my affent. But the former is con- 
firmed by that able and honed: navigator dam- 
pier, who faw them frequently, as well wild 1 
as tame, in the province of Yucatan §, now 
reckoned part of the kingdom of Mexico. 
In North America they were obferved by the 
very firft difcoverers. When rene de laudon- 
niere,, patronized by Admiral coligni, attempted ; 
to form; a fettlement near the place where 
Gharlehown now hands, he met with them on 
his firh landing in 1 564, .and by his hiftbrian has 
reprefented. them with great fidelity in the fifth 
pjate of the recital of his voyage || .: from his time 
the witnefles to their being natives of the conti- 
nent are innumerable.. They have been feen in 
flocks of hundreds in all parts from Louifiana 
Avv Nov., Hifp. zf. 
f Seventeen Years Travels! zo. 
|':In de uet’s Defer.' des Indes., 491.? 
§ Voyages, vol., II. part II, p. 65, 85. 114,5.. 
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