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They design for Cocos, and Cape Comorin.
it. This made me desist, and patiently wait for some more convenient place and opportunity to leave them, than here: Which I did hope I should accomplish in a short time: because they did in- tend, when they went from hence, to bear down towards Cape Comorin. In their way thither they design'd also to visit the Island Cocos, which lyeth in Lat. 12 d. 12 m. North, by our Drafts: hoping there to find of that Fruit; the Island having its name from thence.
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