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formed during the night, did not exempt them 

 from doing their other duty on board; fo that, 

 after having been kept to fifli, they were not 

 the lefs obliged to work the whole day, the fame 

 as thofewhohadtheirregularreft all night. Care, 

 however, fhould have been taken not to damp 

 the zeal of the fifhermen ; for it was the ge- 

 .neral intereft to have a plentiful llock of frefli 

 provifions : befides, it was unjuft not to allow 

 at leafl a few hours repofe during the day to 

 men who had pafTed the night in procuring for 

 all the fhip's company an agreeable and very 

 wholefome article of food. 



We landed in this country a fhe-goat and a 

 young he-goat, in hopes of naturalizing here 

 thefe quadrupeds: no doubt they will thrive 

 very well upon the mountains of this extremity 

 of New-Holland, and will one day be a great 

 refource to navigators ; only it is to be feared 

 that the favages may deftroy them before they 

 have had time to multiply. 



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