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Some account of Batavia

are certainly excellent, especialy the Chinese, which are so immensely fat, that no one thinks of Buying the fat with the Lean, the Butcher when you buy it, cuts off as much as you please, & sells it to his countrey men the Chinese, who melt it down & eat it instead of Butter, with their rice, notwithstanding the excellence of this Pork, the Duch are so prejudic'd in favour of every thing which comes from Fatherland, that they will not at all eat it, but use intirely the Dutch Breed, which are sold as much dearer than the Chinese here, as the Chinese are dearer than them, in Europe.

[Margin note]  Wild animals
Besides these Domestick animals, their woods afford some wild Horses & Cattle, But these only in the distant mountains, & there very scarce, Buffaloes are not wild upon Java, tho they are upon Macassar, & several of the Eastern Islands plentifully, the Neighbourhood of Batavia however is
 

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