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hot be perfuaded to the contrary ^ for 

 a great many of them were fo igno- 

 rant, that they would not be perfuaded 

 but that they were in the South Sea :" And 

 had we chang'd this Courfe, we mould 

 have ftood out to Sea again, and miift have 

 periftYd there^ 



The Land we , made, following the di- Coa ft^ 

 re&ion of the Flurry and the Locufts, and the r. c£ 

 fetting the Point they come from by the Com- 

 pafs,was a little to the North of the Mouth of 

 the River of Plate- We put afhore here to get 

 Water and frefti Provifion, of which this 

 Country afforded plenty : And here our 

 Men having with them their Fufees, fpy'd 

 a Herd of Sea-Swine, as we call them, up-^^.^ 

 on a Point of Land 5 and were thereupon 

 refolved to kill fome of them to bring on 

 board. In order thereunto they contrived, 

 that fome Men mould ftop the Pafs that Jed 

 up to the Mountain, whilft others went in 

 among them, and with their Cutlafles did 

 what Execution they could. But ftill as 

 the Men came near them, the Herd walked 

 toward the Sea, contrary to our Mens ex- 

 pectation 5 for they hitherto took them to 

 be Land-Swine. There they ftood on the 

 Shore, (taring at and admiring our People } 

 But when the Men came near enough, and 

 were juft going to ftrike* among them, the 

 whole Herd jump'd into the Sea, leaving the 

 Men in amazement, and forely vex'd.af their 

 difappointment. But at another time th$f \ 



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