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which feems to include and abforb all 

 others, was moft prevailing, we were 

 cheared with the appearance, once more, 

 of our friendly Indians, as we thought, 

 from whom we hoped for fome relief j 

 but as the confideration was wanting, for 

 which alone they would part with their 

 commodities, we were not at all benefited 

 by their ftay, which was very fliort. The 

 little referve too of flour made by the 

 captain for our fea-ftock when we fhould 

 leave the ifland, was now diminiflied by 

 theft : the thieves, who were three of our 

 men, were however foon difcovered, and 

 two of them apprehended; but the 

 third made his efcape to the woods. 

 Confidering the prefling ftate of our ne- 

 ceffities, this theft was looked upon as a 

 moft heinous crime, and therefore re- 

 quired an extraordinary punifliment : ac- 

 cordingly the captain ordered thefe delin- 

 quents to be feverely whipped, and then to 

 be baniftied to an ifland at fome diftance 



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