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Some account of New Holland

[Margin note] Coccos
Whether they knew or ever made use of the Coccos I cannot tell  the immence sharpness of every part of this vegetable before it is dressd makes it probable that any people who have not learnd the uses of it from others may remain for ever ignorant of them 
[Margin note]  Fruit
Near their fires were great abundance of the shells of a kind of fruit resembling a Pine apple very much in appearance tho in taste disagreable enough  it is common to all the East indies & calld by the Dutch there Pyn appel Boomen (Pandanus) as also those of the fruits of a low Palm calld by the Dutch Moeskruidige Calappus (Cycas circinalis) which they certainly eat  tho they are so unwholesome that some of our people who tho forewarnd depending upon their example eat one or 2 of were violently affected by them both upwards & downwards
[Margin note]  Hogs died
& our hogs whose constitutions we thought might be as strong as those of the Indians literaly dyed after having eat them. it is probable however that these people have some method of Preparing them by which their poisonous quality is destroyd as the inhabitants of the East Indian Isles are said to do by boiling them & 
 

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