of John Cockburn, &c. 217 



Wood, where I found another Whigwam, 

 and a Fire with an Earthern Crock full of 

 Plantains and wild Hog boiling on it. With- 

 out fo much as confidering what I was about 

 to do, I prefently took the Victuals off the 

 Fire, and ate fo eagerly of it, that I thought 

 I could never be fatisfied. Never had I 

 met with fuch delicious Fare, as this feem'd 

 to me at that Time, not having tafted any 

 Thing for above forty Days, but Coco 

 Nuts and Plantains ; nor durft I for feveral 

 Reafons venture to eat my Fill of them, the 

 firft ill agreeing with my Conftitution, and 

 the latter I was obliged to be fparing of, as 

 I knew not when I Ihould come at more. 



When I had ate thus plentifully of this 

 welcome Diet, I inftantly fell into a fall: 

 Sleep, without any Fears of what I had 

 done, and did not wake till near Sun-fet, 

 but ftill no one came. Then I began to 

 corifider, that I was got to a remote and un- 

 inhabited Part of the Country, and that the 

 Indians^ who had wandred hither might be 

 People of very different Difpofitions, from 

 any I had yet met with ; and that if they 

 were not of the Cannibal^ which I had 



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