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Wagen had found a shelter, we were astonished to find a crowd gathered before it. Chiefs, followed by their payong bearers and retinue and numbers of natives, men and women, many with children on their shoulders stood gazing at what think our readers? not at the Rees- Wagen itself, for such a vehicle is so common as to be considered no object of curiosity not at our collection of birds, fowls, skins, horns, &c. &c., which were stowed away in every available corner of the cannage ; but at the two white turtles, which not even the oldest inhabitant in the whole place had ever seen any- thing like before.

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