Darien,, 
Yucatan, 
North 
America,, 
of the Turkey. yg 
the tame ; and that they were (hot with arrows 
or guns*. I cannot learn the time when Fer- 
nandez wrote. It mull be between the years 
1555 and 1598, the period of phi lip’s reign.. 
pedro de ciesa mentions -Turk ies on the Ifth- 
musof Darient- LERY,aPortuguefe author, afferts,> 
that they are found in Brazil, and gives them an 
Indian name j ; but fince I can difcover no traces 
of them in that, diligent and excellent naturalift 
marcgrave, who refided long in that country, 
I muft deny my afient.. But the former is con- 
firmed by that able and honefi: navigator dam- 
pier, who law them frequently, as, well wild 
as tame, in the province of Yucatan §,-? now 7 
reckoned part of the kingdom of Mexico. 
In North America they were ohferved by the ' 
very firfl difcoverers. When rene de laudon- 
niere, patronized by Admiral coligni;, attempted? 
to form a fettlement near the place where- 
Charleftown now ftands, he met with them on 
his firfl: landing in 1564, and by his hiftorian has 
reprefented them with great fidelity in the fifth 
plate of the recital of his voyage || : from his time 
the witnefles to their being natives of the conti- 
nent are Enumerable. They have been feen in 
flocks of hundreds in all parts from Lomfiana* 
Hi&.Av. N6xv Hifpr; 27; 
t Seventeen Years Travels, 20. 
X In de laet’s Defer, des Indes, 491. 
§ Voyages, vol. II. part II. p. 65. . dy? 12 4V 
II DE bry,. 
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