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*^ and their Eyes and Legs of a moft pure red. 

 *' They are good food, and acxounted very nouri- 

 " fhiag." 



35. I am not infenfible, how it is confidently 

 affirmed here, as an infallible truth. That Game- 

 Cocks, and Bull-Dogs degenerate out oi England-, 

 but do thi;)k it is a vulgar error : for at Nevis^ 

 we breed excellent Game Cocks ; and moll: Plan- 

 tations caB fhow a fierce Bull-Dog, particularly 

 the Gentleman I lived with, had no lefs than 

 three at one time, and one Bull-Bitch had three 

 if not four Puppies at a fingle Litter, none of 

 which feemed to want courage, though there 

 was no Bull-baiting in my time, in order to try 

 fuch Dogs : The warm Cli me makes them grow 

 lazy indeed, but alas ! I found by experience, th^t 

 it had the fame efFeft upon Men. We have 

 alfo there many large Cur-Dogs: However^ 

 as we have no Deer, Foxes, Hares, Pheafants, 

 Partridges, or other Englijh kinds of Game, to di- 

 vert a Sportfman, you will not wonder, that we 

 have no Hounds, Grey-Hounds, Setting-Dogs^ 

 or common Spaniels : A Houfe-Dog, is the only 

 Dog that can be of ufe to us. I have farther made 

 it my obfervation, that fome Negroes will eat 

 Dogs Flefh ; in which Cafe our Dogs(both of the 

 BuJJ, and Cur Breed) do always fly outragioufly 

 at th^m, becaufe the People there imagine they 

 find them out to be Dog-Eaters, by fome particu- 

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