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from Luke Haughton's there lived another white man, who 
had also two slaves, an Indian man and woman. I told 
Haughton where we had left the rest of our company, and 
would have hired him and the other white man to have fetch- 
ed them up in their canoe, and for their trouble I promised 
them our canoe, iron pot, and small arms; but they would 
not undertake so dangerous a voyage on my account; and 
these people had like to have paid dear enough for their in- 
discretion, for if it had not been for a Jamaica sloop, which 
by great accident passed by that coast, and seeing a smoke 
on the shore, and knowing there were no inhabitants near 
that place, supposed they were people in distress; it being 
fair Aveather and smooth water at the same time, they sent 
their canoe thither and took them on board when they were 
almost starved; the pilot having had his reward for under- 
taking what he was incapable of, he being starved to death. 
The seamen would have shot him long before I left them, if I 
had not prevented them. My padrone's habitation was near 
Cape Camerone, which is the western part of the Moschetto 
coast that is inhabited. He lived in the same manner as the 
natives; when he wanted provisions he went a hunting, and 
always brought home something to eat, sometimes warree or 
deer, and at other times corrisos, quams, or monkeys, though 
he would seldom kill corrisos or quams, (not thinking them 
worth a shot,) if he could kill warree, deer, or monkeys. When 
he returned we had as much boiled as would serve the fami- 
ly, and the rest was barbecued to keep it from stinking, not 
being provided with salt enough for that purpose, nor would 
salt preserve it so well. The warree is shaped like a hog, 
with this difference, they are of a less size, their ears, legs 
and tail are shorter in proportion than those of the hog, and 
have what they call a navel upon its back, which is placed 
about two thirds toward the tail, and are two lumps of flesh 
about the bigness and shape of their kidneys, which li« just 
within the skin on each side of the back bone, between which 
issues out a matter which casts forth a strong scent, not much 
unlike that of a fox; they keep in droves ; their flesh is very 
sweet and good, I think much better than European pork. 
When they find themselves hard chased, they wdll turn upon 
dogs or men, and often wound the dogs with their tusks : and 
sometimes the men are in great danger of being hurt by them. 
They are easily discovered by the scent. It is an ordinary 
thing when they are to windward of you, to smell a drove of 
them more than a mile. The piccary is much another such 
