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were fo fortunate as to kill one of them, 

 wc thought ourfelves very well off. In 

 one of my walks, feeing a bird of this 

 latter kind upon an eminence, I endea- 

 voured to come upon it unperceived 

 with my gun, by means of the woods 

 which lay at the back of that eminence ; 

 but when I had proceeded fo far in the 

 wood as to think I was in a line with it, 

 I heard a growling clofe by me, which 

 made me think it advifable to re- 

 tire as foon as poffible : the woods were 

 fo gloomy I could fee nothing ; but as I 

 retired, this noife followed me clofe till 

 I had got out of them. Some of our 

 men did affure me, that they had feen a 

 very large beaft in the woods ; but their 

 defcription of it was too imperfedl to be 

 relied upon. The wood here is chiefly 

 of the aromatic kind ; the iron wood, a 

 wood of a very deep red hue, and another, 

 of an exceeding bright yellow. All the 

 low fpots are very fwampy \ but what 



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