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Some account of New Zealand

resemble any fish that I at least have before seen  our seamen contrivd to give names to so that hakes  breams  Cole fish &c. were appellations familiar with us & I must say that those who bear these names in England need not be ashamd of their namsakes in this countrey  but above all the luxuries we met with the lobsters or sea crawfish must not be forgot  which are possibly the same that in Lord Ansons Voyage are mentiond to be found at the Island of Juan Fernandes  they are large tho not quite so large as those at Juan fernandes & differ from ours in England in having many more prickles on their backes & being red when taken out of the water  of them we bought great quantities of the natives every where to the Northward  who catch them by diving near the shore  feeling first with their feet till they find out where they lie   We had also that fish describd by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of Elefant, Pejegallo, or Poisson Coq  which tho coarse we made shift to Eat  several species of Skates or sting rays which were abominably coarse  but to make amends for that we had among several sorts of dog fish one that was spotted with a few white spots  whose flavour was similar to

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