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BUCANIERS HISTORY.
PART I.
CHAP. I. The Introduction.
THE Harpyiae of old were Fa∣bled to have been a Ravenous kind of Fowl, inhabiting a certain Island, who plundered all that came near theplaces of their abode; but we do not read that they rang'd far a∣broad in search of their Prey. But here are a worse kind of Cattel, who would spare no Travel, refuse no hazards, yea, rake Hell itself, before they would like Fools, run a bootless Errand: Which the poor Spaniards had too sad experience of, tho, I dare swear, they would rather have been so credulous as to have given an im∣plicite Faith to the Relations of Travel∣lers