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But this Sense of the Matter is so far from being received among People even of Condition, that Vocifer passes for a fine Gentleman. He is Loud, Haughty, Gentle, Soft, Lewd, and Obsequious by turns, just as a little Understanding and great Impudence prompt him at the present Moment. He passes among the silly Part of our Women for a Man of Wit, because he is generally in Doubt.
Now he flies away to yonder rock; and there, see! he has begun to tear his fish to pieces. How quickly he has finished it and listen to that curious shriek he is uttering, and how oddly he moves his head and neck. It is answered from those other rocks. The birds are calling to each other, and from this the fishing-eagle has gained his name of vocifer" Leo was for shouting and making them fly off.
What makes his Character the pleasanter is, that he is a professed Deluder of Women; and because the empty Coxcomb has no Regard to any thing that is of it self Sacred and Inviolable, I have heard an unmarried Lady of Fortune say, It is pity so fine a Gentleman as Vocifer is so great an Atheist. I hardly have observed any one fill his several Duties of Life better than Ignotus.
While we were looking on, a huge bird, descending from the sky, it seemed, pounced down into the water, quickly rising again with a large fish in his mouth. "Ah, that fellow is the fishing-eagle of Africa the Halicetus vocifer" said David. "His piercing eye observed his prey when he was yet far up in the air. See how like a meteor he descended on it!
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