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We were not fufFered to be in the 

 fame wigwam with the cacique and his 

 wife ; which, if we had had any coun- 

 tenance from captain Cheap, would 

 not have been refufed. What we had 

 made for ourfelves was in fuch a 

 bungling manner, that it fcarce deferved 

 the name even of this wretched fort of 

 habitation. But our untoward circum- 

 ftances now found fome relief in the ar- 

 rival of the Indians we waited for ; who 

 brought with them fome feal, a fmall 

 portion of which fell to our fliare. A 

 night or two after they fent out fome of 

 their young men, who procured us a 

 quantity of a very delicate kind of birds, 

 called fliags and cormorants. Their 

 manner of taking thefe birds refembles 

 fomething a fport called bat-fowling. 

 They find out their haunts among the 

 rocks and cliffs in the night, when 

 taking with them torches made of the 



bark 



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