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would be ftill better for the propagation of 

 this kind of hogs. We bought a good many 

 of thefe fwine for our (hip ; and every Satur- 

 day we killed one of them, and had broth 

 called Puspas boiled from part of it. 



In the fame ifland were fome little gardens, 

 and in the midfl of them here and there a 

 palm-tree (Phanix daclyllfera) which gave them 

 a fine appearance. 



January the 23d, and the following days. 



Puerto de San ft a Maria, which our failors 

 called Port St. Mary, is a little unfortified fea- 

 port, about three quarters of a Swedifh mile 

 from Cadiz. I went this day to that place ; 

 It is fituated in a plain, not far from the mouth 

 of a river. If you go up this river, the town 

 is on your left hand, and on the right a fmall 

 ifland, whofe fituation is low, and which is co- 

 vered with flirubs, among which the Ncrium 

 oleander, called Terva mala, or the noxious 

 plant, by the Spaniards, grew in the fand 

 near the water. 



On 



