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, and used to eat them when they catch them.

In the hot country to which she was carried, she says, she was re-imbarked, and performed a very long voyage, during which, the master, to whom  had been sold, wanted to make her work, particularly, at a sort of needle work; he beat her, but her mistress, who she thinks spoke French, was very kind to her.—That the ship having been wrecked the crew took to the boat; but, an a negro girl that was on board, were left to shift for themselves. The negro girl, she says, could not swim so well as she, but she kept herself above water by taking hold of le Blanc's foot, and by this way they both got on shore. They then traversed a great track of country, commonly travelling all night, sleeping in the day iimetime [sic] on the tops of trees. They subsisted upon the roots which she dug out of the ground with her fingers, and particularly her thumb, which by that, and by the use she made of it in climbing, and leaping from one to another, is much larger than  thumbs of other people. They also catched as much game as they could, which they eat raw with the warm blood