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Some account of New Holland

[Margin note]  Fish
property of spouting out water when touched are commonly calld sea squirts  these last  howsoever disgustfull they may seem to an European palate  we found to contain under a coat as tough as leather a substance like the guts of a shell fish  in taste tho not equal to an oyster yet by no means to be despisd by a man who is hungrey

Of Land animals they probably eat every kind that they can kill which probably does not amount to any large number every species being here shy & cautious in a high degree 
[Margin note]  vegetables
the only vegetables we saw them use were Yams of 2 sorts  the one long & like a finger the other round & coverd with stringy roots  both sorts very small but sweet  they were so scarce where we were that we never could find the plants that producd them  tho we often saw the places where they had been dug up by the Indians very newly  it is very probable that the Dry season which was at its hight when we were there had destroyd the leaves of the plants so that we had no guides  while the Indians knowing well the stalks might find them easily

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