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men, finding that we would not return, left us ; as alfo 1777. 

 fome others, who had come off in two canoes, with a few 

 cocoa-nuts, and fliaddocks, to exchange them for what 

 they couki get ; the eagernefs of thefe people to get into 

 their pofTtirion more of our commodities, inducing them to 

 follow the fliips out to fea, and to continue their intercourfe 

 with us to the laft moment. 



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