I4O VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



On the fkirts of the fhore we met Citizen 

 Riche's fen-ant, highly pleafed with having 

 killed' a few birds which he was carrying to his 

 matter. This fervant, recovering from indifpo- 

 iition, was Hill under the care of the Surgeon of 

 the Efperance, who thought that he had a right 

 to the game killed by his patient ; but neither 

 the threats of being purged, nor even thofe of 

 being put on a low diet, could extort from him 

 a tingle bird. And indeed the Doctor kept his 

 word ; he obliged him to fubmit to a regimen, 

 and to fwallow a purgative. This poor fallow 

 learnt, by fad experience, the danger of re lift- 

 ing the furgeon of a fhip. PYom that day, when- 

 ever he went a mooting, he no fooner faw lVI. 

 Jouanet, however far diftant, than he ran off 

 as faft as his legs could carry him. 



We proceeded for fom<* time towards the 

 north-eaft, and before dark we reached the 

 ihore the ncareft to our 4 \\\[m, to which we ex- 

 pected to be conveyed immediately, as we had 

 promised to have a boat fent for us as foon 

 re hailed. We might have been put on 

 board in five minutes, but we were obliged to 

 wait with patience for two hours on the beach. 

 Jt would have been proper to have a boat folely 

 deftined for the uic of the naturaliits. 



One of our party fhot, on the lake, a bird 

 very aftonifhing for the fingularrty of its plu- 



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