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TRUE HISTORY.
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in the Indian language, but most of them in Greek: they also kissed us with their mouths, but he that was so kissed fell drunk, Many men have thus lost themselves, in the yielding to the bewitching enticement of wine and women.and was not his own man a good while after: they could not abide to have any fruit pulled from them, but would roar and cry out pitifully if any man offered it. Some of them desired to have carnal mixture with us, and two of our company were so bold as to entertain their offer, and could never afterwards be loosed from them, but were knit fast together at their nether parts, from whence they grew together and took root together, and their fingers began to spring out with branches and crooked wires as if they were ready to bring out fruit: whereupon we forsook them and fled to our ships, and told the company at our coming what had betide unto us, how our
