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them I mould be loft, becaufe they Were the 

 habitations of many fierce tigers. 



I could only be twelve hours on ihore„ 

 The 17th of March we left this place, and 

 having nothing to do at Cananor, we failed to 

 Mahie, where we (lopped the 19 th of the fame 

 month. 



This town or plantation belongs to the 

 French E. I. company. It is near the more, 

 and the mouth of the river is (o covered with a 

 ridge of rocks above the water, that a ftranger 

 cannot get up with a boat. Several redoubts 

 with high ramparts ferve as a defence, which 

 in this country are efteemed a confiderable 

 fortification. At the top of one of the re- 

 doubts, blocks of wood were erected, which at 

 a diftance looked like men. I forgot to en- 

 quire into their ufe, but they feemed to me 

 very proper to fill the holes when the garri- 

 fon was forced to be on the ramparts. This 

 would be an invention, which in fome cafes 

 might be as ufeful as blocks of wood inftead 

 of cannons. I have often heard that wooden 

 heads are placed in the advanced ftations; bjit 

 that they are likewife ufed as blind works in: 

 fieges 3 I never knew yet. 



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