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Perouse, dressed their fish in wooden vessels, 

 and as they could not stand the fire, they 

 very ingeniously caused the water to boil 

 by throwing in red hot stones, which they 

 renewed till their food was sufficiently cook- 

 ed. 



They were also acquainted with the art 

 of roasting, which they performed in a simi- 

 lar manner to that practised by our soldiers 

 in camps. 



Among the Laplanders, this department of 

 their domestic economy is performed by the 

 men; and though the art of cookery is 'still 

 in its infancy among them, they carefully 

 keep it a secret from their females. 



Almost all barbarous nations are in the 

 habit of preserving the flesh of animals by 

 means of salt ; and the Ichutskis and Green- 

 landers had recourse to the same mode in 

 order to preserve their fish during winter, 

 even before this art was known and practised 

 in Europe, and previous to the period when 

 Charles V. caused a, statue to be erected in 



honor 



