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The lutroduditcn. 
Their Beef here is very well tafted, and good, unlefs when Guinea 
Hen-weed rifes inthe Savannas, which is immediately after Rains, or 
when they are fo parch’d that Cattle can find nothing elie to feed on, 
this having a very deep Root, and being then green. ‘Then their 
whole Flefh tafts fo much of it, that one cannot well eat it, at which 
time likewife it infects their Milk, and very much their Kidnics. 
Every thing made of Milk rafts, when the Cows eat tt, fo trong of 
it, that there is no ufing with pleafure any thing made cherewita. 
This is commonly thought to come from their eating Calabafh-T ree. 
Leaves, which in chat {carcicy are fell’d co feed cher Cattle ; but ic 
comes from this Herb, and not thence as !s vuig arly fuppoled. Carre 
feed on the Calabafh Fruit in dry times, Hortes tn che Woods are 
fometimes kill'd by them, the Fruit ticking fo talt co their Teeth chat 
they are not able to open their Chaps to feed. 
The Butchers remedy the fmell of the Guinea Hen weed in Cattle, 
by putting them into other feeding Grounds before they are flaugh- 
tered. 
Veal is very common, but none thought good but what comes 
from Luidas, where the Calves are very white fefh’d; whether this 
comes from this places being mountainous, or bleeding and giving 
them Chalk, asin Effex, Icannot tell, but the price of it was fo ex. 
travaganc, that in the Affembly they paft an A& chat it fhould not be 
fold dearer than twelve pence per Pound. 
A great part of the Food of the beft Inhabicants, for their own 
Tables, of the produce of the Hland, is Swines-flefh, and Poultry of 
their own raifing. 
Swine are of two forts, one running wild in the Country amongft 
the Woods, which feed on the faln Fruits, ec. and are fought out 
by Hunters with gangs of Dogs, and chiefly found in che more un- 
frequented, woody, inland parts of the Hfland. After puriuir, and chat 
they are wearied by the Dogs, when they come to a Bay, they are 
fhot or pierc’d through with Lances, cut open, the Bones taken out, 
and the Flefh is gafh’d on the infide into the Skia, fili’d with Sale and 
expos‘d to the Sun, which is call’d Jirking. Ic is fo brought home 
to their Mafters by the Hunters, and eats much as Bacon, if broil’d 
on Coals. Thefe Hunters are either Blacks or Whites, and go out 
with their Dogs, fome Salt and Bread, and lye far remote from 
Houfes, in Huts, in the Woods, for feveral days, in places where 
Swine come to feed on the Fruits, ec. returning wich more or lefs 
Meat, according to their good or bad Fortune. 9 The Iudians are very 
exquifite at this Game. The fame method is ufed for wild Kine 
which are now but very few, and thofe in the Woods in the North 
fide. Wild Goats there are fome on the Salt-Pan Hills, nor 
I to be 
fen but in dry Seafons when they come down for water. 
Swine 
