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along shore

right ahead & very near, which the wind which blew strong blew directly upon  we were soon however set at ease by the Captn comeing down & telling us that it was only a white cloud  in the morn it blew hard & before noon (:to our great surprize) land was indeed in sight very high & far off  many conjectures were made whether or not it was part of the land we had left but that can only be determind by future observations  we had most of us put great confidence in the intelligence we had got of the Indians in the last anchoring place notwithstanding Tupia had even then warnd us much not to depend upon the people who he said he was sure were liars.
We had been told however at different times by the inhabitants of both the towns that the streights realy joind the two seas & that the land to the Southward might be saild round in three or four days  the first we had found to be true & from thence there appeard the highest probability that the other was so likewise  nor could we devise any reason the Indians could have in wishing to deceive us especialy as we had ask'd the question of two different societies who we had reason to think had not had any intercourse in the intermediate time  which had made us rather stretch the bounds of probability in allowing
 

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