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which had very nearly cost me my life. I was resolved to eat no 

 more limpets till we landed, which we did some time after, upon an 

 island. I then took notice that the Indians brought aU their sheUs 

 ashore, and laid them above high-water mark. Here, as I was going 

 to eat a large bunch of berries I had gathered from a tree, for they 

 looked very tempting, one of the Indians snatched them out of my 

 hand and threw them away, making me to understand that they 

 were poisonous. Thus, in all probability, did these people now save 

 my life, who, a few hours before, were going to take it from me for 

 throwing away a shell." 



" One day, we fell in with about forty Indians, who came down 

 to the beach we landed on, curiously painted.* Our cacique seemed 

 to understand but little of their language, and it sounded to us very 

 different from what we had heard before. However, they made us 

 comprehend that a ship had been upon the coast not far from where 

 we then were, and that she had a red flag : this, we understood 

 some time after, to have been the Anna Pink, whose adventures are . , 

 particularly related in Lord Anson's voyage ; and we passed through 

 the very harbour she had lain in."t 



• Probably in the neighbourhood of the ' Estero de Aysen.' in lat. 

 45° S — R. F. ' 



t No — not through the harbour, but within^ twenty miles of it, I shonld 

 suppose. — R. F. V 



