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it to her. The diver then, after having 

 taken a iliort time to breathe, went down 

 and up again with the fame fuccefs ; and 

 fo feveral times for the fpace of half afl 

 hour. It feems as if Providence had 

 endued this people with a kind of am« 

 phibious nature, as the fea is the only 

 fource from whence almoft all their fub- 

 fiftence is derived. This element too, 

 being here very boifterous, and falling 

 with a mod heavy furf upon a rugged 

 coaft, very little, except fome feal, is to 

 be got any where but in the quiet bo- 

 fom of the deep. What occafions this 

 reflexion is the early propenfity I had fo 

 frequently obferved in the children of 

 thefe favages to this occupation; who, 

 even at the age of three years, might be 

 feen crawling upon their hands and 

 knees among the rocks and breakers ; 

 from which they would tumble them- 

 felves into the fea without regard to the 

 cold, which is here often intenfe ; and 

 K 2 Ihewing 



