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caufe {he was put into the little round canoe, into which they put chil- 

 dren, in order to accuftom them to the fea : For they are put into it 

 with a thing like a purfe that draws clofe about their middle, fo as to 

 keep the water from coming in, by which means the water might 

 pafs over the child, and the canoe might be overturned never fo of- 

 ten, but it could not fmk ; and, in this way, fhe fays, the children 

 were taught to fwiin. That iTie believes fhe was a confiderable time 

 in the country, to which (he was firft carried, where Ihe learned 

 the ufe of the Tribiee^ as above mentioned, and likewife to fhoot 

 with the bow and arrow. That, after fhe had efcaped from the lafl 

 fhip, in which fhe was embarked, fhe remembers that fhe palt 

 through great tradts of country with her companion ; and fhe re- 

 members particularly that fhe was in one country, where fhe favvr a 

 great number of people dancing. That fhe and her companion liv- 

 ed upon roots, and upon what game they could catch. That what 

 they killed, they fucked the blood of, while it was warm, and eat 

 the flefli immediately. That fhe remembers they killed a fox, but 

 found the flelh very bad, fo that they only fucked the blood. They 

 alio catched a hind, and, after having fucked the milk of it, they 

 cat the flefh." 



As I thought this Girl, who hjfd been born and bred a favage, 

 and could give fo good an account of that ftate by her fpeaking the 

 French language, the greateft curiofity I had ever feen, I had many 

 other converfations with her, and learned feveral other particulars 

 of her manner of life, which I have mentioned in other parts of this 

 work. 



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