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lead fix men to the oar to have made any 

 kind of expedition : inftead of that, there 

 was only Campbel and myfelf, befides 

 the Indian, his companion, or fervant, to 

 row, the cacique himfelf never touching 

 an oar, but fitting with his wife all the 

 time much at his eafe. Mr. Hamilton 

 continued in the fame canoe he had been 

 in all along, and which ftill was to keep 

 us company fome way further, though 

 many of the others had left us. This 

 was dreadful hard work to fuch poor 

 ftarved wretches as we were, to be Hav- 

 ing at the oar all day long in fuch a 

 heavy boat ; and this inhuman fellow 

 would never give us a fcrap to eat, ex- 

 cepting >vhen he took fo much feal that 

 he could not contrive to carry it all away 

 with him, which happened very feldoiru 

 After working like galley-Haves all day, 

 towards night, when we landed, inftead 

 of raking any reft, Mr. Campbell and I 

 were fomedmes obliged to go miles 

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