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Description 
Hurricane. 
[1671 
Ordinary Sport of the Island. 
I ’ve already said that to obtain Birds, it needs only a 
stick to make such a bag as one wishes, excepting the 
Geese & Flamands, which require killing by gunshot. 
The Hunting of Pigs & Goats is done with dogs, who 
running these animals down, the Hunter takes them from 
between the teeth of the dogs, & cuts their throat at his 
ease. There are, nevertheless, some of these Pigs, which 
have tusks like the wild Boars, & which often kill the 
dogs. Even the hunter is in danger, unless he takes great 
care of himself. They do not go at all to stalk deer. 
Indeed one is as sure of getting what one wishes, as one 
wou’d be in taking it in a good Menagerie & Basse-Court 
furnish’d with everything. 
The Disagreeable Inconveniences of the Island. 
A Hurricane passes by generally every year, sometimes 
twice; it occurs from the end of December until the end 
of March, without one’s being sure in which of these 
months the Hurricane comes. Thus during this season 
there’s no security for any vessel moor’d off the Island. 
This Hurricane lasts generally twenty-four hours, & is 
compos’d of a furious wind, which roots up the trees & 
levels to the ground the Houses or Huts, & of a great 
deluge of water; this spoils the settlements, & causes a 
quantity of cattle to perish, both domestic & wild. These 
Hurricanes are not always of the same force; there are 
.some more violent than others. 
There are some Flies which are six months in the Island ; 
they are twice the size of the largest Flies which are seen 
in Summer in France; they deposit their grubs all 
Flies . 
