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One would be apt to think that their Stone was carried by an inviſible Hand."

Father du Tertre ſays pretty much the ſame Thing of the Weſt-India Savages, that we have been reading from Kolben of the Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope: He above all cries up their Dexterity in ſhooting with their Arrows Birds flying, and Fiſhes ſwimming, which they afterwards take by diving for them. The North America Savages are no leſs famous for their Strength and Dexterity: And the following Story may help to give us an Idea of theſe Qualities in the South America Indians.

In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, propoſed to the Governor to purchaſe his Liberty by expoſing his Life at a public Feſtival. He engaged to attack by himſelf the moſt furious Bull without any Weapon but a Rope, to bring him to the Ground, ſeize with his Rope ſuch Part of him as he ſhould be ordered, ſaddle him, bridle him, and then mounted on his Back fight two more of the moſt furious Bulls in the Torillo, and

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