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cocoas ; but they found in them neither 

 water nor tortoifes. 



When the hatchets, which enabled them 

 to cut down the cocoa trees» were unfit for 

 fervice, M. Riviere formed a rcfolutioa of 

 proceeding to the coaft of Malabar, though 

 be had neither charts nor compafs. This 

 officer, therefore, caufed his canoe to be 

 loaded with cocoas, and embarked in it with 

 the two white men. The Lafcars con- 

 ftruifled a raft, called hy the Indians, Cj//- 

 maron^ which was to be towed after the 

 canoe, and which carried the remainder of 

 their provifions. Direding their courfe 

 R N. they fell in with a high flioal 

 four or five hours after they had loft fight 

 of land* Some days after their departure, 

 the fea, in which there was a prodigious 

 fwell, overfet the float. The whites then 

 propofed to Mr* Riviere to abandon the 



Lafcars, 



