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* * * * * Extract from the log of H.M. fifty-gun ship _ Hecate _ in her cruise off the American Main . '' _ Jan. 26 , 1721 . _ -- This day , the junk having become unfit for food , and five of the crew down with scurvy , I ordered that we send two boats ashore at the nor ' - western point of Hispaniola , to seek for fresh fruit , and perchance shoot some of the wild oxen with which the island abounds . '' _ 7 p.m. _ -- The boats have returned with good store of green stuff and two bullocks . Mr. Woodruff , the master , reports that near the landing-place at the edge of the forest was found the skeleton of a woman , clad in European dress , of such sort as to show that she may have been a person of quality . Her head had been crushed by a great stone which lay beside her . Hard by was a grass hut , and signs that a man had dwelt therein for some time , as was shown by charred wood , bones and other traces .