ie ee ee NATURAL HISTORY. 
They feed upon ferpents, upon the eggs of cto- 
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 i 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 fiy from the place until they have 
_ brought up part of it again. 
There are Vultures at the Cape of Gos Hope, | 
in Africa. When an ox or a cow is tired, and 
ties 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 
-flefh clean from its bones; fo that if the fein 
were taken off there would Be nothing left but 4, | 
{keleton. 
There are many Vultures 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 can find, ‘They are of great ufe there; for 
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