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in would not allow them to give credit 

 to it at firft ; but afterwards, being con- 

 vinced that it was as I reported it, we 

 were all in the greateft hurry to ftrip off 

 fomeof our rags to make a fignal withal^ 

 which we fixed upon a long pole. This 

 had the defired efFed : the people in the 

 canoe feeing the fignal, made towards 

 the land at about two miles diftance 

 from us ; for no boat could approach 

 the land where we were : there they put 

 into a fmall cove, flieltered by a large 

 ledge of rocks without, which broke the 

 i^iolence of the fea. Captain Cheap and 

 I walked along fliore, and got to the 

 cove about the time they landed. Here 

 we found the perfons arrived in this ca- 

 noe, to be our Indian guide and his wife, 

 who had left us fome days before. He 

 would have afked us many queftions ; 

 but neither captain Cheap nor I under- 

 ftanding Spanifli at that time, we took 

 bim along with us to the furgeon, whom 



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