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and when preſs’d him to take more for fear of doing me any Injury: No, ſays he, I am very well ſatisfy’d with this, which is valuable enough to ſave me the Trouble of making any more Voyages, to raiſe as great a Fortune as I deſire.

I ſpent the Night with thoſe Merchants, to whom I told my Story a ſecond Time, for the Satisfaction of thoſe who had not heard it. I could not moderate my Joy, when I found my ſelf delivered from the Dangers I have mention’d; I thought my ſelf to be in a Dream, and could ſcarce believe my ſelf to be out of Hazard.

The Merchants had thrown their Pieces of Meat into the Valley for ſeveral Days. And each of them being ſatisfy’d with the Diamonds that had fallen to his Lot, we left the Place next Morning altogether, and travell’d near high Mountains, where there were Serpents of a prodigous Length, which we had the good Fortune to eſcape. We took the firſt Port we came at, and came to the Iſle of Reha, where the Trees grow that yield Camphire. This Tree is ſo large, and its Branches ſo thick, that 100 Men may eaſt’y fit under its Shade. The Juice of which the Camphire is made, runs out from a Hole bor’d in the upper Part of the Tree, is received ina Veſle], where it grows to a Conſiſtency, and becomes what we call Camphire; and the Juice thus drawn out, the Tree withers and dies,

There is in this Iſland the Rhinoceros, a Creature leſs than the Elephant, bur greater than the Buffalo; they have a horn upon their Noſe, about a Cubit long; this Horn is ſolid, and cleft in the middle from one end to another, and there is upon it white Draughts, repreſenting the Figure of a Man. The Rhinoceros fights with the Elephant, runs his Horn into his Belly, and carries him off upon his Head; but the Blood and the Fat of the Elephant running into his Eyes and making him blind he falls to the Ground; and that which is aſtoniſhing, the Roc comes and carries them both away in her Claws, to be Meat to her young Ones.

I paſs over many other Things peculiar to this Iſland, leſt I ſhould be troubleſome to you. Here I exchang’d ſome of my Diamonds for good Merchandize. From thence we went to other Iſles, and at laſt, haying touch’d at ſeveral trading Towns of the firm Land, we landed at