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*"'".' diilancc from mc, by fome rouffh ufaee ; jealous, tliat tiierc 

 Ihould be another traveller upon the iiland, who might vie 

 v^^ich himfclf. Oar touching at TenerifTe was a fortunate cir- 

 cumftancc for Omai ; as he prided himfclf in having vifitcd 

 a place belonging to Spain, as well as this man. I did not 

 meet with the other, who had returned from Lima ; but 

 Captain Gierke, who had fccn him, fpokc of him as a low 

 fellow, and as a little out of his fenfes. His own country- 

 men, I found, agreed in the fame account of him. In fhorr, 

 thefe two adventurers feemcd to be helil in no edeem. 

 They had not, indeed, been fo fortunate as to return home 

 with fuch valuable acquifitions of property, as wc had he- 

 flowed upon Omai ; and with the advantages he reaped 

 from his voyage to England, it mufl: be his own fault, if he 

 fl-iould fink into the fame (late of infigniiicancc. 



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