SIR TURKEY
“There is also a bird much greater tn bigness than a peacock that is found within the forests and vegas (meadows) all over this country. It surpasses in food any wild bird we have found up to this time. The natives do shoot these birds with arrows and catch them in various kinds of springes ami snares. They are sometimes very large, being as much as thirty pounds in weight. They can fly, but prefer to run, which they can do with exceeding swiftness.” Thus Fra Agripida, confessor and his-
torfan to Cortez, on bis return to Spain after his first visit to Mexico, described the turkey in his account ot the “Wonders of the New World,” written in the earlv part of the sixteenth century. The actual importation of the turkey, which lias been called one ol the finest gifts of the New World to the Old, took place at the end of the sixteenth ccntttrv. The bird was brought from Paraguay bv the Jesuits, and was served for the first time in public at the marriage of King Charles IN. of France, when (he King ate the left wing..
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 73, 19 December 1925, Page 23
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193SIR TURKEY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 73, 19 December 1925, Page 23
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