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In failing along upon this Coaft we were 

 fometimes put to it for Food as well as 

 Water $ and once were fo Hunger-pinchd, 

 that meeting with fome Sea-crabs on the 

 Coaft, one of our Men, Mr. SmaUboms, eat 

 them raw, and even Sea- weeds ; But others 

 of us, whofe Stomachs would not ferve 

 tor that Food, looking about found a lean 

 gaird Horfe grafing in a little Spot at the 

 toot of the Hill 3 which we prefently 

 kill'd, cut in pieces, and making a Fire with 

 Sea-weeds, eat the Flefti while 'twas 

 hardly warm, leaving none, but carrying 

 the very Guts aboard, 



I mall not purfue all my Coafting along 

 this Shore with Captain Davk 5 but two 

 particulars more I muft not omit : The 

 Vcnnejo. one is, That we put afhore at Fermejo, in 

 i oDeg. S. Lat. There we landed about 30 

 Men (of whom I was one) to fee for 

 Water, or any other Refrelhment that we 

 wanted. After we were landed, we 

 marched about four Miles up a Sandy 

 pead Bo- 5 a ^ vv ^ich we found covered with 

 dies in the Bodies of Men, Women and Children ^ 

 USmber vvhich lay fo thick, that a Man might, 

 ; > j-7 if he would, have walked half a Mile, 

 and never trod a Step off a dead Human 

 Body. Thefe Bodies to appearance, feem'd 

 as if they had not been above a week 

 dead $ but if you handled them, they pro- 



