__ in three or four days young ones will come and 
- eat out of the hand, 
oS the Weft-Indies, obferved a wild Flaming 
near his houfe ; ; he ordered a little Negro to driv 
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6. .THE NATURAL HISTORY 
away, and all the flock immediately follows in 
order. 
Sometimes they are furprized by the fowler, 
and become ftupid and motionlefs, through fear, 
which gives him time to kill them all, one after) 
another. ; : 
"Their filefh is very nice food, efpecially the 
tongue. Apicius, a glutton of Rome, recom. 
mended it as a delicacy. Apicius fpent a ver 
large fortune in eating and drinking, and poifone 
himfelf at laft left he fhould die through want 
though he had ftill very fufficient left. 
The Phoenicopterus, or Flamingo, is covered 
with down like the Swan; and its fkin, like the 
Swan’s, is made into furs, which 4re very warm, 
and ufeful to old people. It is eafily tamed; 
_A French Gentleman at St. Domingo, an ifland 
towards it a tame one, of which he had the care 
The Negro took with him the trough, out of 
which the tame Flamingo was fed, and placed} 
by the fide of the. marfh, and hid himfelf near it 
T he tame F oe foon came to it, the wild one 
; = % followed 
