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the viMaffe, and afterward eat ir. It is alfo probable that '"8. 



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as the feafon advances, they have many others, which we 

 did not fee. For though there be no appearance of cuUiva- 

 tion amongft them, there are great quantities of alder, 

 goofeberry and currant buQies, whofe fruits they may eat 

 in their natural (late, as we have feen them eat the leaves of 

 the laft, and of the lilies, jufl: as they were plucked from 

 the plant. It muft, however, be obferved, that one of the 

 conditions wliich they fee m to require, ia all food, is, that 

 it fhould be of the bland or Icfs acwd kind; for they would 

 not eat the leek or garlic, though they brought vafl; quan- 

 tities to fell, when they underflood we were fond of it. 

 Indeed, they feemed to have no rclifli for any of our fopd ; 

 and when offered fpirituous liquors, they reje(fled them as 

 fomethin^ unnatural and difgufting to the palate. 



Though they fometimes eat fmall marine- animals, iti 

 their frefli ftate, raw, it is their common pratflice to roafl 

 or broil their food ; for they are quite ignorant of our me- 

 thod of boiling ; unlefs we allow that of preparing their 

 porpoife broth is fuch ; and, indeed, their veflels being aU 

 of wood, are quite infufEcient for this purpofe. ; 



Their manner of eating is exacflly confonant to the nafti- 

 nefs of their houfes and perfons ; for the troughs and plat- 

 ters, in which they put their food, appear never to have 

 been waflied from the time they were firft made, and the 

 dirty remains of a former meal are only fweeped away by 

 the fucceeding one. They alfo tear every thing folid, or 

 tough, to pieces, with their hands and teeth ; for though 

 they make ufe of their knives to cut off the larger portions, 

 they have not, as yet, thought of reducing thefe to fmaller 

 pieces and mouthfuls, by the fame means, though obvi- 



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