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[Page 367]

263.
Some account of New Holland

to fall  for quadrupedes  Birds fish &c.
[Margin note] Animals]
I shall say no more than that we had some time ago learnd to eat every identical species which came in our way  a hawk or a crow was to us as delicate & perhaps a better relished meal than a partridge or Pheasant to those who have plenty of dainties. 
[Margin note] Birds
we wanted nothing to reccomend any food but its not being Salt  that alone was sufficient to make it a delicacy  Shaggs  Sea gulls & all that tribe of sea fowl which are reccond bad from their trainy or fishy taste were to us an delicacy agreable food  we did not at all taste the rankness which no doubt has been & possibly will again be highly nauseous to us whenever we have plenty of Beef & mutton &c.
[Margin  note] Quadrupeds
Quadrupeds we saw but few & were able to catch few of them that we did see  the largest was calld by the natives Kangooroo  it is different from any European & indeed any animal I have heard or read of except the Gerbua of Egypt  which is not larger than a rat when this is as large as a midling Lamb  the largest we shot weighd 84 lb  it may however be easily known from all other animals by the singular property of running or rather hopping upon only

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