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fent it to a friend at Paramaribo, whence it was fince fent 

 to Holland as a curiofity. 



However extraordinary this account may appear to 

 many readers, let them perufe the narrative which is re- 

 lated by a gentleman in the iiland of Ceylon, who faw a 

 tiger killed there by a fnake he calls the anacunda, but in 

 a quite different manner, and their wonder will ceafe. I 

 muft add, however, that this gentleman's relation is fo 

 very marvellous, that, notwithftanding what I have ex- 

 perienced, I muft confefs it very greatly ftaggered my 

 faith*. '\\\^^, 



This bufinefs being ended, I alfo made an end of the 

 cruife, by dropping down before the Society poft Devil's 

 Harwar, in order the next day to affume the command. 



* Doftor Bancroft mentions the I, without great difficulty, attribute this 

 power of fafcination in the aboma. This quality even to the rattle-fnake. 

 I am obliged to contradiil. Nor can 



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