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 in it, in the same manner as a hawk, wild beast does; and she remembers particularly, that they killed a fox, of which they only sucked the blood, finding  flesh very disagreeable.

She had, when she was caught at Songi, the bludgeon above mentioned, she wore in a pouch by her side; and, besides, she had a longer stick, with  pieces of iron at the end of it, one in  middle sharp and pointed, and the  two upon the sides hooked; and the  made of it, was to stab any wild  that attacked her, with the sharp  and with the hooks she assisted herself  climbing trees, by catching hold of  branches; and she says it was particularly useful to her in defending  against the bears, when they  to follow her up the trees. This she says, she brought with her from  hot country, but the other from her own.

From the above particulars, which learnt from her own mouth, I think  am able to fix with some certainty  the country of which she is a native. has been supposed to be of the Esquimaux nation; but there is proof to refute this notion, for she is  a fair complexion, a smooth skin,