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other game that are found in that des-
olate country.

So they started off on their beating
excursion. But they ventured too far,
and got lost. It was three days before
they found their way back again to the
ship. They killed two or three fowls
while they were gone; and these would
have tasted well enough, if the poor
sailors had had a chance to cook them.
But they had no way to make a fire,
and the birds were eaten after the fash-
ion of the natives in that country—
raw. When these men got back to the
ship, their fingers and toes were nearly