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though, as I have before remarked, it is very lean. The 

 people here jerk their beef by taking out the bones, 

 cutting it into large but thin slices, then curing it 

 with salt, and drying it in the shade : it eats very 

 well, and, if kept dry, will remain good a long time 

 at sea. Mutton is scarcely to be procured, and hogs 

 and poultry are dear ; of garden-stuff and fruit-trees 

 there is abundance, of w^hich, however, none can 

 be preserved at sea but the pumpkin ; rum, sugar, 

 and molasses, all excellent in their kind, may be had 

 at a reasonable price ; tobacco also is cheap, but it is 

 not good. Here is a yard for building shipping, and 

 a small hulk to heave down by ; for as the tide never 

 rises above six or seven feet, there is no other way of 

 coming at a ship's bottom. 



When the boat which had been sent on shore 

 returned, we hoisted her on board, and stood out to 

 sea. 



