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‘a HE NATURAL HISTORY 
- ‘They feed upon ferpents, upon the eggs of cro 
codiles, and of alligators, and upon dead carcafes, 
_ which they can fmell a great way off. ‘ 
In America there are many wild horfes and 
wild cows; the hunters kill them in order to get 
their fkins, and they leave the dead bodies upon 
the ground: all this time the Vultures are flying 
after and watching them; and as foon as the 

hunters are gone, they come down in great num- 
bers, and devour the bodies that are left. They 
are fo greedy, and fometimes eat fo much, that 
they cannot fly from the place until they have 
« brought up part of it again. 
There are Vultures at the Cape of Good Hope, 
in Africa, When an ox or 2 cow is tired, and 
lies down in the field, the Vultures will fometimes 
fly down upon it in great numbers, whilft it 
fleeps. They make a hole in its ftomach, and 
eat out all its infide; then they. pick all the 
ficth clean from its bones; fo that if the {kin 
were taken off there would be nothing left but a 
Skeleton. ) 
There are many Walkie? in other parts of A- 
frica, and at Grand‘ Cairo, which is in Egypt, 
and by the river Nile.. The Vultures, and the 
wild dogs together, eat all the dead bodies that 
they canfind. They are of great ufe there 3; for 
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