Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0456
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Some account of Savu
the only Benefit that these Islanders receive from them
[Margin note] eat Horse
for they use them as food &preferr their flesh to that of Buffaloes & every other sort but
[Margin note] hogs best
swines flesh which holds the highest rank in their opinion.
their sheep are of that kind which I have seen in England under the name of Bengall sheep they differ from ours in having hair instead of wool in their ears being very large and flapping down below under their horns almost streight & in their noses which are much more arch'd than those of our European sheep these sheep are I beleive very frequently calld Cabritos from their resemblance to goats which tho I cannot say appeard to me at all striking yet had such an effect upon the whole ships company officers & seamen that not one would beleive them to be sheep till they heard their voices which are precisely the same as those of European ones
[Margin note] Mutton
their flesh was like the Buffaloes lean & void of flavour to me the worst mutton I have ever eat
[Margin note] fowls
their fowls are cheifly of the game breed and large but the eggs the smallest