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leaft fix men to the oar to have made any 

 kind of expedition : inftead of that, there 

 \¥as only Campbel and myfelf, befides 

 the Indian, his companion, or fervant, to 

 row, the cacique himfelf never touching 

 an oar, but fitting with his wife all the 

 • ^me much at his eafe. Mr. Hamilton 

 continued in the fame canoe he had been 

 in all along, and which ftill was to keep 

 us company fome way further, though 

 many of the others had left us. This 

 Vi^as dreadful hard work to fuch poor 

 ftarved wretches as we were, to be Hav- 

 ing at the oar all day long in fuch a 

 heavy boat : and this inhuman fellow 

 would never give us a fcrap to eat, ex- 

 cepting when he took fo much feal that 

 he could not contrive to carry it all away 

 with him, which happened very feldom. 

 After working like galley-flaves all day, 

 tovv/ards night, when we landed, inftead 

 of taking any reft, Mr. Campbell and I 

 were fomeiimes obliged to go miles 

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