»44 n a r r a t i v e , o f : .a n
French valet-de-chambre,
fion, was biowq down. to^ar/ga’i pointy anft another 4tune
funk with all the prqvi^ops; whic^ p r o d u e ^ ^ e impertinent
remark from fome of^the, f ^ ^ |^ t ^ a t . t h e 4 |yp
had miftaken him for bis matter. In |h§ -midft b $ ^ -
■> ever 0f this diftrefs^we were t a^ap, pyplpnted ? b^ ope. of
the rangers with a large bird^ called here^ bopyTy~<t$coQ9
hein^g a fpecies- of wild t-u rk eyX ,^
fition it w;as refolyed i& the Wenip^to^ipa^e^bpth,.,p|$i
throwing a piece of his rufk ,W 9 ^ 4 § f j^
(Handing round.the fire) beginning to ladle away as jjpop
as the broth began to bad, which had ^another virtue,
vizt notwithftandin^ts bein^ put o y er^t | x ^ lo e ^ , m
the evening, at-twelve o’clock at midnight the kettle was
juft as full ss. ihej. firft
though the broth was rather .weaker. I ,muft .acknpw“
ledge, the-heavy rain having jdf^eft
termiffion. During this .fpyefp^fni, oh
tute of huts as the
more of my Englilh petticoat t^w?|e ^ , whicbj J°pfeni;ng
from my middle, I hung 4b put my ftioulders, and con-
tinuing to p r n round before the ftre
on a fixing) I pitted the hoqrs|with rather, more pom-
fort than my miferable coughing companion?. All I
can fay of the bird above mentioned is, that I thought it
differed little from the common turkeys, which here
frequently weigh above twenty pounds.
' The largeft bird in Guiana is there called tuyeVo, and by
others
others emu. If is a middle fpecies between the oftrich and chap ,
the1 GafibWatyy as I was told, for I never faw one in the | . . ,
country : it ! isdfitidf to be^abdut fix feet high, from the
top of tliebhead tolthe^found; its head is fmall,'its bill
flat, the nebk and1 limbs1 longV the body round, without a
tail/ and of a whitiftigrey colour'; its thighs are remarkably
thick'Mid ftrong, -and it bass three toes on each fodt,
while the oftrich *lias; but*' twol Thils bird, it is laid, cann
o t'fly at sail, !but runs very1 fwiftly; and, like the oftrich,
affi'fts its motion with its wihgl:: it is moftly found near
the' tipper parts of the rivers Marawina and Seramica.
When fpeakihg about birds, nofwithftanding few of
t h e m ; here with any degree of melody, for which
the- beauty'of their plumage is thought by feme to com-
penfate; I was/ during this march, fo much charmed with
twu in: particular/ that I was induced to put their fweet
notes to mufic.' Thofe of the firft
Rather quick
The fécond flow
Thefe notes they Jung lo true, fo foft, and to fuch
proper time, that in any other place I fhould have been
inclined to believe they were the performance of a human
artift upon his flute. As. I never faw either of thofe
birds but imperfectly and at a diftance, I can fay nothing
more concerning them, than that they are frequently
heard in rnarfhy fituations.
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