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 One would be apt to think that their Stone was carried by an inviible Hand."

Father du Tertre ays pretty much the ame Thing of the Wet-India Savages, that we have been reading from Kolben of the Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope: He above all cries up their Dexterity in hooting with their Arrows Birds flying, and Fihes wimming, which they afterwards take by diving for them. The North America Savages are no les famous for their Strength and Dexterity: And the following Story may help to give us an Idea of thee Qualities in the South America Indians.

In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, propoed to the Governor to purchae his Liberty by expoing his Life at a public Fetival. He engaged to attack by himelf the mot furious Bull without any Weapon but a Rope, to bring him to the Ground, eize with his Rope uch Part of him as he hould be ordered, addle him, bridle him, and then mounted on his Back fight two more of the mot furious Bulls in the Torillo, and