16 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
old Duck, into a fampane, or boat: when in thi, 
boat, the whole flock, perhaps three or four hun. 
dred, go out to feed, and retura at the word of 
command. When the crop of rice is cut, the 
plantations afford much food for the Ducks ; and 
though feveral thoufands, belonging to different 
boats, are feeding in the fame plantations, they 
feparate when they are called, and each comes to 
ts own boat: and yet on the river at Canton, 
there are perhaps forty thoufand of thefe boats, al]. 
moored, or faftened, near to one another. When 
the Chinefe put nets into the water, they are obliged 
to fhoot continually, to frighten away the Ducks; 
- or they would very foon take all the fith out of 
the nets. 
_ The King Duck is found at Hudfon’s Bay, 
in North America; its down is as foft, and 
as ufeful, as the down of the Eider Duck. The 
natives few their fkins together, to make them- 
felves clothes, which are very comfortable. They 
kill the King Ducks with darts. -A number of 
men go in canoes: when they fee a flock, they 
fhout, and make as much noife as they can; the 
Ducks are too much frightened to fly away, fo 
they dive under the water ; the Indians know by 
the bubbles where they will rife again, and row 
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