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 ing to depart, having ftripped their wig^- 

 warns of their bark covering, and car- 

 ried it into their canoes. Putting on, 

 therefore, my fliirt juft as it was, I 

 haftened to join them, having a great 

 defire of being prefenc at one of their 

 Billing parties. 



It was my lot to be put into the canoe 

 with my two patronefles, and fome 

 others who affifted in rowing : we were 

 in all four canoes. After rowing fome 

 time, they gained fuch an offing as they 

 required, where the water here was about 

 eight or ten fathom deep, and there lay 

 upon their oars. And now the youngeft 

 of the two women, taking a bafket in 

 her mouth, jumped overboard, and div- 

 ing to the bottom, continued under wa- 

 ter an amazing time : when flie had fil- 

 led the balket with fea-eggs, fhe came 

 up to the boat-fide ; and delivering it fo 

 filled to the other women in the boat, 

 they took out the contents, and returned 



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