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will hold a pound of Tobacco ; they feed up- 

 on Fifh, and the young ones are good meat. 

 They have alp3 Cormorants refembling Ducks 

 for fize and fhape, are of a black Colour, have 

 a white fpot on the Breaft, and pitch fbmetimes 

 on Trees and Shrubs by the water fide. They 

 are too rank to be eaten. They have abundance 

 of Sea-gulls and Pye^, which are pretty good 

 meat, but eat fifhy, which is cur'd by burying 

 'em eight or ten hours in the Sand with 

 their Feathers on. They have flying Infe£ls 

 too, and anfiong others Bees, which form their 

 Hives on Trees ; and it's obferv'd, That they 

 never fting any body : The Natives mix the 

 Hony with Water, and fo drink it, but know 

 not the ufe of the Wax. They have fhining 

 Flies, which in the night time refemble Glow* 

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Their Fifh are the Tarpomj which eats like 

 Salmon ; fome of 'em weigh 50 or 60 pound : 

 They afford good Oil. They have Sharks^ and 

 another fifh that refembles a Sjmrkj but much 

 better Meat. The CavaUy is much of the fize 

 of a Maccarel, and very good Meat. They 

 have a Fifli calTd Old Wives, which is alfo very 

 good to eat. Their Paracoods are as large as a 

 well-grown Pike, and very good Meat ; but 

 in feme particular places poifbnous, which are 

 difl:inguifhy by the Liver. Their G^r-fifh is 

 good Meat, they have a long Bone on their 

 Snout, with which they will fometimes pierce 

 the fide of a Canoe. They have alfo SctilpinSf 



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