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 Fear and begg'd of me not to go on Shore till Day; well Xury, said I, then I won't, but it may be we may see Men by Day, who will be as bad to us as those Lyons; then we give them the shoot Gun, says Xury, laughing, make them run wey; such English Xury spoke by conversing among us Slaves, however I was glad to see the Boy so cheerful, and I gave him a Dram (out of our Patron's Case of Bottles) to cheer him up: After all, Xury's Advice was good, and I took it, we dropp'd our little Anchor and lay still all Night; I say still, for we slept none; for in two or three Hours we saw vast great Creatures (we knew not what to call them) of many sorts, come down to the Sea-shore and run into the Water, wallowing and washing themselves for the Pleasure of cooling themselves: and they made such hideous Howlings and Yellings, that I never indeed heard the like.

Xury was dreadfully frighted, and indeed so was I too; but we were both more frightened when we heard one of these mighty Creatures come swimming towards our Boat, we could not see him, but we might hear him by his blowing to be a monstrous, huge and furious Beast; Xury said it was a Lyon, and it might be so for ought I know; but poor Xury cried to me to weight the Anchor and row away; no, said I, Xury, we can slip our Cable with the Buoy and go off to Sea, they cannot follow us far; I had no sooner said so, but I perceiv'd the Creature (whatever it was) within two Oars length, which something surprized me; however I immediately stept to the Cabin-door, and taking up my Gun fir'd at him, upon which he immediately turn'd about and swam towards the Shore again.

But it is impossible to describe the horrible Noises, and hidious Cries and Howlings, that were