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Shoes spoil'd with Hogs-briftles.
come in Troops out of the Woods in the night in- to the very City, and come under their Houfes, to romage up and down the filth that they find there. The Natives therefore would even defire us to lye in wait for the Hogs, to destroy them, which we did frequently, by fhooting them and carrying them presently on board, but were prohi- bited their Houfes afterwards.
And now I am on this fubject, I cannot omit a story concerning the General. He once defired to have a pair of Shoes made after the English fa- fhion, tho he did very feldom wear any: So one of our men made him a pair, which the General liked very well. Afterwards fome body told him, that the Thread wherewith the Shoes were fowed, were pointed with Hogs briftles. This put him into a great paffion ; fo he fent the Shoes to the man that made them, and fent him withal more Leather to make another pair, with Threads point- ed with fome other hair, which was immediately done, and then he was well pleafed.
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