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  I had not such bad luck in this voyage as I had been used to meetwith, and therefore shall have the less occasion to interrupt thereader, who perhaps may be impatient to hear how matters went withmy colony; yet some odd accidents, cross winds and bad weatherhappened on this first setting out, which made the voyage longerthan I expected it at first; and I, who had never made but onevoyage, my first voyage to Guinea, in which I might be said to comeback again, as the voyage was at first designed, began to think thesame ill fate attended me, and that I was born to be nevercontented with being on shore, and yet to be always unfortunate atsea. Contrary winds first put us to the northward, and we wereobliged to put in at Galway, in Ireland, where we lay wind-boundtwo-and-twenty days; but we had this satisfaction with thedisaster, that provisions were here exceeding cheap, and in theutmost plenty; so that while we lay here we never touched theship's stores, but rather added to them. Here, also, I took inseveral

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  As their strength and their grandeur, so their navigation,commerce, and husbandry are very imperfect, compared to the samethings in Europe; also, in their knowledge, their learning, and intheir skill in the sciences, they are either very awkward ordefective, though they have globes or spheres, and a smattering ofthe mathematics, and think they know more than all the worldbesides. But they know little of the motions of the heavenlybodies; and so grossly and absurdly ignorant are their commonpeople, that when the sun is eclipsed, they think a great dragonhas assaulted it, and is going to run away with it; and they fall aclattering with all the drums and kettles in the country, to frightthe monster away, just as we do to hive a swarm of bees!

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