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Rh shrill piercing cries, formed in the throat, without any articulation or motion of the lips. As to her two embarkations, of which she has preserved a pretty distinct idea, and about which she has never varied, the truth of them, as well as of her having remained some time in a hot country, such as our West India islands, seems to be in some measure confirmed by this, that sugar canes, cassave, or manioc, the known productions of the hottest climates, were by no means new or unknown objects to her, for she remembers to have eat of them; and the first time they were shewn her in France, she seized them very greedily. I take notice of these circumstances, because they tend to form a connection between the several parts of the adventures that may have conducted Madamoiselle Le Blanc from the northern regions, of which she appears to be a native, first into the West Indies, and from thence into Europe, somewhere near the frontiers of France.

and her companion catched the fish with their hands, either in the sea, in lakes, or in rivers; for Madamoiselle Le Blanc could not explain to me which; nor could she give me any other description of their manner of fishing, except that when they saw in the water, where their sight was extremely acute, any fishes, they instantly pursued and catched them, then