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Some account of Savu

I have ever seen

[Margin note]  Dogs & Cats
Besides these animals here are vast plenty of dogs  some cats & rats & a few Pidgeons   I saw 3 or 4 pair  nor are any of these animals exempted from furnishing their part towards the support of Polyphagous man except the Rats which alone they do not eat

Fish appeard to us to be scarce  indeed it was but little valued by these Islanders  none but the very inferior people ever eating it & these only at the times when their duty or business requird them to be down upon the sea beach  in this case every man was furnishd with a light Casting net which was girt round him &servd for a part of his dress  with this he took any small fish that might happen to come into his way  
[Margin note] Turtle
Turtles are scarce  they are esteemd a good food but are taken only seldom
Of the vegetables most are well known  
[Margin note] Fruit
the custard apple sweet Sop is a delicious pleasant fruit well known to the West Indians. Blimbi alone is not mentioned by any voyage writer I have met with  it is a small oval fruit thickest in the middle & tapering a little to each end  3 or 4 inches in

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