An account of several late voyages and discoveries

'º Spitzbergcn. 93 es dexterouíly before it falls down into Water; and this is the reafon why they him StrHnl-jdger, in Euglilh the D1mgh11n- e flycth wich the Mews called Kutge-gthet h do not frar him in the kafi, and they th equally f wift in their flying, but whtn ends to make tbem dung, he huats them makes them cry out very, loud, but he him- feldom cries : He generally kcepcth but to Mew, but jf two or threc of rhe Mews be ·her, and one makes her efcape from him, he bunts the other two, and flyeth fome– above and fometimes underneath them. Id never fee him hunt after any other , but once l fa w him Ay after a Mallemuck, 1 faw him foon leave her, perhaps becaufe ung did not pteafe him. I amof opiaion this Dung, becaufc it is thin, ferves him d of Drink, for elfe he eats the Fat of the e for bis Food : He buitds bis Ncfi not very ~aes upright upon bis Legs, like the BMr– ifter, Rhatfher, or Kutge·gehef. lt is a rare and I faw but very few of them: He flies only alone ; I faw very feldom two or of them together ; he flies like tbe Rhat· cr like a Crow, but bis Wings are fomewhat oo;nted at rhe ends. · h th a loud Voice, when he cries it s ~is if he <lid fay 1 11a. To fome it fee· , if it be at a d ifiance, as if he cried, 1o h1111. Fleíl1 is not better than that of the other Birds