146 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
old Duck, into a fampane, or boat : whert inthis — 
boat, the whole flock, perhaps three or four hun= _ 
dred, go out to feed, and return 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. diferent 
boats, are feeding in the fame plantations, they 
feparate when they are called, and each comes to 
its own boat: and yet on the river at Canton, 
_ there are perhaps forty thoufand of thefe boats, all 
moored, or faftened, near to one another. W hen 
_ 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 foibiea 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 {kins 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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