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Manners & Customs of the S. Sea Islands

above species more perhaps than our own Island can boast of I speak now only of what is more properly calld Fish but almost every thing which comes out of the sea is eat & esteemd by these people Shellfish lobsters  Crabbs even Sea insects & what the seamen call blubbers of many kinds conduce to their support Some of the last indeed that are of a tough nature are prepard by suffering them to stink. Custom will make almost any meat palatable & the women especialy are very fond of this tho after they had eat it I confess I was not extreemly fond of their company

Besides the Bread fruit the earth almost spontaneously produces Cocoa nuts Bananas of 13 sorts the best I have ever eat Plantains but indiffernt, a fruit not unlike an apple which when ripe is very pleasant Sweet potatoes Yamms Cocos another kind of Arum known in the East Indies by the name of -- also a fruit known there by the name of -- & reckond most delicious Sugar cane which the inhabitants eat raw a root of the Salop kind Calld by the inhabitants Pea the root also of a plant calld Ethee & a fruit in a Pod like a large Hull of a Kidney bean which
 

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