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waiting for the moment of darting upon its prey 
(wift as an arrow: and when the weather is moft 
tempeftuous, the Man of War Bird, light as air, 
raifes itfelf higher than the clouds, and finds a 
calm above the ftorm. He goes fome hundred 
leagues out to fea, and without fettling, pafles 
over a greater fpace than he can fly through in 
the day; for he continues his flight in the night, 
- and ftops only where his prey is in the greateft 
abundance. ‘The flying fifh out at fea, {wim in © 
hhoals; and with their fins, which they can ufe 
as wings, they rife*into the air, to efcape from the 
Bonitos and Dorados: thefe are larger fifh, which 
purfe, in order to prey upon them. The Man 
of War Bird perceives thefe fhoals from afar, and 
catches the flying fifh whilft they are in the air ; 
or as he fkims along the furface, feizes them 
fometimes with his beak, and fometimes with his 
—daws. The Man of War Bird often obliges the 
Booby (a fmaller kind of Pelican) to provide him 
with food; for when he fees the Booby, he flies 
after him, and ftriking him with his wing, or his 
beak, obliges him to let fall, or to vomit the fifh 
he has taken, and the Man of War Bird catches it 
before it reaches the water. 
A gentleman faw in the Ifland of Afcenfion, 
(which is in the Atlantic Ocean) a vaft number 
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