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perience has taught them to manage them to 

 fo much advantage, that little families have a 

 fufficient, and even fuperfluous, maintenance 

 from this bufinefs. 



They keep plenty of hogs, Whofe fiem they 

 eat daily in great quantity and with great re- 

 lifh, and the fpecies in this country is very pro- 

 lifick; for the fows farrow before they are one 

 year old, though they do not produce fo many 

 young ones at the firft time, as the third or 

 fourth, when the fow brings forth generally 

 feventeeh or eighteen pigs at once. The dif- 

 tillers of famfu, riceftampers, and thofe who 

 have mills, always keep many fwine: though 

 hot fo many as the people on the Ihore, and 

 the fifhermen, who feed them with fifh with- 

 out any expence to themfelves : but this food 

 gives them a fifhy tafte. Befides this, every 

 little family in the fampattes keeps hogs for 

 their own ufe, and for fale. It can hardly be 

 imagined how a fufficient number can be bred, 

 when you obferve what quantities of pork they 

 carry about the ftreets, and daily confume 

 (fince their principal difh is prepared of ba- 

 con); and likewife that they facrifice large 

 whole roafted fwine in the pagodas, and ufe 

 them on holidays ; befides confuming many on 

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