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ivory afterwards when triumphing for having happily fi* 

 nifhed the African war. 



This, too, in more modern times, was a great article in 

 the trade to China, and I have always been exceedingly fur- 

 prifed, fince near the whole of the Arabian Gulf is com- 

 prehended in the charter of the Eafl India Company, that 

 they do not make an experiment of fifhing both pearls and 

 tortoifes ; the former of which, fo long abandoned, muft 

 now be in great plenty and excellence, and a few fifhers put 

 on board each fhip trading to Jidda, might furely find very 

 lucrative employment with a long-boat or pinnace, at the 

 time the vefTels were felling their cargo in the port, and 

 while bufied in this gainful occupation, the coafts of the 

 Red Sea might be fully explored. 



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