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 people, and used to eat them when they could catch them.

In the hot country to which she was first carried, she says, she was reimbarked, and performed a very long voyage, during which, the master, to whom she 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 she, and 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, in this way they both got on shore. They then traversed a great tract of, commonly travelling all night, sleeping in the day time on the tops  trees. They subsisted upon the roots she dug out of the ground with  fingers, and particularly her thumb,  by that, and by the use she made  it in climbing, and leaping from one  to another, was much larger than  thumbs of other people. They also as much game as they could,  they ate raw with the warm blood