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Jn France, they watch when a flock of wild 
Ducks is flying near ; and let out a tame Duck, 

who entices the wild ones within gun-fhot; and 
fo they are killed. They are fometimes taken 
with hooks, baited with fheep’s lights, which 
{wim upon the water. 
‘Inthe river Ganges, (which is in India) they take 
Ducks very much in the fame manner as inChina; 
only inftead of gourds, or calabafhes, they ufe 
earthen veflels, fuch as the Gentoos boil their rice 
, in. The Gentoos are a very harmlefs, good, and hu- 
mane people, who inhabit the Eaft Indies. They 
live only upon vegetables, becaufe they think it is - 
cruel to put any thing to death: and they never 
ufe the fame veifels to boil rice intwice, but throw 
them, after once ufing, into the river; fo that the 
Ducks are ufed to fee them. In the fame man- 
ner they take wild Geefe in South America ; 
only they ufe a hollow wooden vefiel to’ put their 
heads into. . 
In China, they prefer tame Ducks to thofe that 
are wild. They hatch them by the heat of a fire; 
the eggs are placed in boxes of fand, on a brick 
hearth; and the hearth is properly heated. The 
little Ducks are fed with crawfith, and crabs, cut 
fall; and in about a fortnight provide for them- 
felves, They are then put under the care of an 
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