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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, 
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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. {pace 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 
a fhoals; 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 fith, which 
- purfue, in order to prey upon them.) The Man - 
__ of War Bird perceives thefe fhoals from afar, and 
catches the flying fith whilft they. are in the air; 
or as he fkims along the furface, feizes them. 
 fometimes with his beak, and fometimes with his 
claws. 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 
o after him, and ftriking him with his wing, or his 
beak, obliges him to let fall, or to vomit the fifth — 
8 he has taken, and the Man of War Bird catches it 
a before i it reaches the water. 
- {which is in the Atlantic Ocean) a vaft number 
A gentleman faw in. the Tfland of Afcenfion, 
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