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261 Some account of New Holland
assurd that these people eat them & some of our gentlemen tried to do the same but were deterrd from a second experiment by a hearty fit of vomiting & purging which was the consequence of the first the hogs however who were still shorter of provision than we were eat them heartily & we concluded their constitutions stronger than ours till after about a week they were all taken extreemly ill of indigestions - two died & the rest were savd with dificulty Other usefull plants we saw none except perhaps two might be found so which yeild resin in abundance the one a tree tolerably large with narrow leaves not unlike a willow which was very plentyfull in every place into which we went this yeilded a blood red resin or rather gum-resin very nearly resembling Sanguis draconis indeed as Sanguis draconis is the produce of several different plants this may perhaps be one of the sorts This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world p. & by him compard with sanguis draconis as possibly also that which Tasman saw upon Diemens Land where he says he saw gum of the trees & gum Lac of the ground See his voyage in
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