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Some account of Princes Island

Their food was nearly the same as the Batavian Indians  adding only to it the nuts of the Palm calld Cycas circinalis with which on the Coast of New Holland some of our people were made ill & some of our hogs Poisond outright  their method of preparing them to get out their deleterious qualities they told me were first to cut the nuts into thin slices & dry them in the sun  then to steep them in fresh water for three months; afterwards drying pressing the water from them & drying them in the sun once more  they however were so far from being a delicious food that they never usd them but in times of scarcity when they mixt the preparation with their rice

Their Town which they calld Samadang consisted of about 300 houses  great part of the old town however was in ruins  their houses were all built up on pillars 4 or 5 feet above the ground  the Plan of that of Gundang a man who seemd to be next in riches & influence to the King will give an Idea of them all  it was walld with boards  a luxury none but the king & himself had but in no other
 

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