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ti France, they watch when a flock af wild 
Ducks is flying near ; and let out a tame Duck, 
; who entices the wild ones within eun-fhot; and 
_ fo they are killed. ‘They are fometimes nélien | 
with hooks, baited with fheep’ $ scp Lasers 
fwim upon the water. 
~ Tn the river Ganges, (which is in India) rene take 
Ducks very much in the fame manner as in China; | 
only inftead of gourds, or calabafhes, they ufe 
earthen veflels, fuch as the Gentoos boil their rice 
in. The Gentoos area very harmless, good, and hu- 
mane people, who inhabit the Eaft Indies. They 
live only upon vegetables, becaufe they think itis — 
cruel to put any thing to death: and they never 
ufe the fame velicls to boil rice in twice, but throw 
them, after once ufing, into the river; fo that the 
Ducks are ufed,tofee them. In the fame man- 
mer they take wild Geefe in South America ; 5 
- only they ule a hollow wooden veflel’ to put their | 
heads into. 3 
a Tn China, they aks tame. aks ail that 
are wild, . They hatch them bY the heat of afires 
the eggs are placed in boxes of fand, on a brick 
hearth ; and the hearth is properly heated. “The 
little Ducks are fed with crawffh, and crabs, cut 
fmall; and in about a fortnight provide for them, 
felves They are then Lie under the care of an 
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