Cranes.
Cranes[321] there are greate store, that ever more came there at S. Davids day, and not before: that day they never would misse.
These sometimes eate our corne, and doe pay for their presumption well enough; and serveth there in powther, with turnips, to supply the place of powthered beefe, and is a goodly bird in a dishe, and no discommodity.
Turkies.
Turkies[322] there are, which divers times in great flocks have sallied by our doores; and then a gunne, being commonly in a redinesse, salutes them with such a courtesie, as makes them take a turne in the Cooke roome. They daunce by the doore so well.
Of these there hath bin killed that have weighed forty eight pound a peece.[323]
They are by mainy degrees sweeter then the tame Turkies of England, feede them how you can.
I had a Salvage who hath taken out his boy in a morning, and they have brought home their loades about noone.
[{70}] I have asked them what number they found in the woods, who have answered Neent Metawna,[324] which is a thosand that day; the plenty of them is such in those parts. They are easily killed at rooste, because, the one being killed, the other sit fast neverthelesse; and this is no bad commodity.