Note 1 — CHAP. VII.
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However extraordinary this account may appear to many readers, let them peruse the narrative which is related by a gentleman in the island of Ceylon, who saw a tiger killed there by a snake he calls the anacunda, but in a quite different manner, and their wonder will cease. I must add, however, that this gentleman’s relation is so very marvellous, that, notwithstanding what I have experienced, I must confess it very greatly staggered my faith1.