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foot, while ſhe rode on a milk-white Palfrey, in a kind of Triumph at the head of them: The led them into a deep River, which by her Art ſhe made ſeem paſſable; and when they were all come a good way in it, ſhe cauſed a ſudden Wind to riſe, which driving the Waters in ſuch abundance to one Place, ſwallowed up the poor Lovers to the number of Six Hundred in their tumultuous Waves. After which, the Sorceress was ſeen by ſome Perſons, who ſtood on the Shore, to convert herſelf into a Bat, and fly through the Air till she was out of ſight; as did her Palfrey into a Sea-Hog or Porpoiſe, and inſtantly plunged itself to the Bottom of the Stream.

To prevent any ſuch like Accident for the future, theſe wiſe People have ordained their Women to go on ſoot, and follow whereſoever their Lords the Men ſhall lead; and this Cuſtom is ſo religiouſly obſerved, as indeed all their Traditions are, that if by chance a Woman is. before, whoever ſees her, cries out immediately, Tehi-Tegi! Tebi-Tegi! which, it ſeems, was the Name of that Enchan-

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