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taking, catch .a young parrot, for I knocked it down with a:stick, ©
and having recovered it I brought it home; but it was some years
before I could make him speak. However, at last I taught him
to call me by my name very familiarly. But the accident that
followed, though it be a trifle, will be very diverting in its place.

I was exceedingly diverted with this journey. I found in the
low grounds hares, as I thought them to be, and foxes; but they
differed greatly from all the other kinds I had met with, nor could
I satisfy myself to eat them, though I killed several. But I had
no need to be venturous, for I had no want of food, and of that
which was very good too; especially these three sorts—namely,
goats, pigeons, and turtle or tortoise, which added to my grapes,
Leadenhall Market could not have furnished a table better than I
in proportion to the company. And though my case was deplor-
able enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness, and that I
was not driven to any extremities for food, but rather plenty, even
to dainties.

I never travelled in this journey above two miles outright in a
day, or thereabouts. But I took so many turns and returns to see
what discoveries I could make that I came weary enough to the
place where I resolved to sit down for all night; and then I either
reposed myself in a tree, or surrounded myself with a row of stakes
set upright in the ground, either from one tree to another, or so as
no wild creature could come at me without waking me.

As soon as I came to the sea-shore I was surprised to see that I
had taken up my lot on the worst side of the island; for here,
indeed, the shore was covered with innumerable turtles, whereas
on the other side I had found but three in a year and a half.
Here was also an infinite number of fowls of many kinds; some
which I had seen, and some which I had not seen before—and
many of them very good meat—but such as I knew not the names
of, except those called penguins.

I could have shot as many as I pleased, but was very sparing of
my powder and shot, and therefore had more mind to kill a she-
goat if I could, which I could better feed on; and though there
were many goats here—more than on my side the island — yet it
was with much more difficulty that I could come near them..the