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lieved the foldiers for a time, and many people of all ages 

 and fexes were Hill dying every day. 



The harbour of Bengazi is full of fifh, and my company 

 caught a great quantity with a fmall net ; we likewife pro- 

 cured a multitude with the line, enough to have maintain- 

 ed a larger number of perfons than the family confided of ; 

 we got vinegar, pepper, and fome ftore of onions ; we had 

 little bread it is true, but Hill our induftry kept us very far 

 from ftarving. We endeavoured to inftruct thefe wretches, 

 gave them pack-thread, and fome coarfe hooks, by which 

 they might have fubfifted with the fmalleft attention and 

 trouble ; but they would rather flarve in multitudes, flriving 

 to pick up fingle grains of corn, that were fcattered upon the 

 beach by the burfting of the facks, or the inattention of the 

 mariners, than take the pains to watch one hour at the flow- 

 ing of the tide for excellent fifh, where, after taking one, 

 they were fure of being mailers of multitudes till it was 

 liigh water. 



The Captain of the fmall vefTel loft no time. He had 

 done his bufmefs well, and though he was returning for 

 another cargo, yet he offered me what part of his funds I 

 mould need with great franknefs. We now failed with a 

 fair wind, and in four or five days eafy weather landed at 

 Canea, a con fiderable fortified place at the weft end of the 

 ifland of Crete. Here I was taken dangeroufly ill, occafion- 

 ed by the bathing and extraordinary exertions in the fea 

 of Ptoiometa, nor was I in the leaf! the better from the beat- 

 ing I had received, figns of which I bore very long after- 

 wards. 



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