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Nobody is permitted to eat flefli in Lent, ex* 

 cept the Tick, who may obtain a difpenfation 

 for a certain fee. Cow beef is reckoned bed 

 in this country, becaufe the cows are feldom 

 milked; but in their flead goats, flieep, and 

 affes. We bought two oxen for our ihip ; their 

 flefli was exceedingly dry, occafioned both by 

 the larvas of the gad-fly which nettle in their 

 ikins about this time, and by the want of good 

 pailures ; for our fine Swedifh grafs is much 

 wanted here, and in its flead the paftures are 

 covered with thirties, and other prickly plants, 

 which I (hall mention in another place. 



Sovaja is a fort of corn which is fown in 

 the inclofures of the town, not for the ufe of 

 men, but only for the Cattle. They fold it to 

 us in bundles, whilft it was green, and had no 

 ears, which do not appear till March. 



Bees are here in great eftimation, or eHe 

 the Spanifli proverb could not take pkce : 

 Abeja y oveja, 

 Tpiedra que traveja, 

 Tpendola trans orcja, 

 T parte en la Igreja, 

 Defea a fit hljo> la vicja. 



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