Sentence:  At noon some <WSD>noddies</WSD> came so near to us, that one of them was caught by hand. This bird was about the size of a small pigeon. I divided it, with its entrails, into 18 portions, and by a well-known method at sea, of "Who shall have this?" it was distributed, with the allowance of bread and water for dinner, and eat up bones and all, with salt water for sauce. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera "Anous" and "Procelsterna", found in tropical seas.