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ting on the Water, waiting to take their 1699. 
T urns. W e firft difcovered the Whale by 
the Fowls ; for indeed I did never fee fo 
many Fowls at once in my Life before, 
their Numbers being inconceivably great : 
They were of divers forts, in Bignefs, 
Shape and Colour. Some were almoit as 
big as Geefe , of a grey Colour, with 
White Breafts, and with fuch Bills, Wings, 
and Tails. Some were Pintado Birds, as 
Ducks, and fpeckled Black dnd o 
\ ; . Some were Shear- waters ; fome 
; and there were feveral forts of 
owls. We faw of thefe Birds, ef- 
pecially the Pintado-bitds, all the Sea over 
from about 200 Leagues diftant from the 
Coaft of Brazil , to within much the fame 
diftance of Netp Holland. The Pintado is a 
Southern Bird , and of that Temperate 
Zone ; for I never faw of them much to 
the Norward of 30 deg. S. The Pintado- 
bird is as big as a Duck ; but appears, as 
it flies, about the bignefs of a tame Pigeon, 
having a fhort Tail , but the Wings very 
long, as moft Sea-Fowls have ; efpecially 
fuch as thefe that fly far from the shore, 
and feldom come nigh it : for their Reft- 
ing is fitting afloat upon the Water ; but 
they lay, I fup'^ofe, afhore. There are 
three forts of thefe Birds, all of the fame 
make and bignefs , and are only different 
in Colour. The firfl: is black all over : 
The 
