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Our butcher, who was entrufted with the 

 feeding of the cattle, had been able to procure 

 only a very hard and very dry forage, compofed 

 in a great meafure of the antluftiria cilia t a ; 

 but fortunately he had provided fome thick 

 plantain ftems, which for a long time afforded 

 thefe animals a fuccuh-nt food. As they were 

 reduced to a fcanty allowance of water, the 

 moiflure of thefc plants was very beneficial to 

 them. 



The flour which was procured for us at Am- 

 boyna was of a middling quality; and of this 

 the Company's agents could furnifh us only 

 about five hundred myriagrams. This fcarcity, 

 %vhether real or fictitious, occafioned us to pay 

 for it an exorbitant price. 



"We found here very little European meat. 

 The Deputy Governor, however, had a good 

 ftock of Hamburgh beef, which is an article in 

 high requefl: with navigators, lie was fo good 

 as to fpare a part of it to the commander of the 

 expedition ; but, when we got to fea, it was 

 difcovcred that the Deputy Governor's fcrvants 

 had committed a great breach of truth The 

 rood flefhy pari of thefe pieces of beef had been 

 taken off, and there had been delivered to the 

 Admiral nothing more than the bones and the 

 tendinous part?. 



Young 



