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ANIMAL or at rnoil three eggs at a time, yet by being never diilurbed, and 

 ^^^^'^^^''V.alwayskeepingtogetber in great flocks, they are bedome the moil 



frequent and numerous. The mofl palatable fpecies of fifh are like- 



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v/ife the moil prolific ; but it mufl be obferved, that there is no 

 where fuch abundance of fiih in the South-Sea, as at New-Zee- 

 land, by which means they are become the principal nourifhment 



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of the natives, v/ho have found that way of living to be attended 

 with the leail trouble, and confequently fuited to that indolent dif- 

 |)ofition which they have in common with all barbarous nations.. 



III. VARIETY 



It does not appear, that the individuals of the animal kingdom 

 are fo much fubjed: to variety in the South- Seas., as thofe of the ve- 

 getable. Domeilication, the great caufe of degeneracy in fo many 

 of our animals, in the firft place, is here confined to three fpecies ; 

 the hoo;, do^, and cock : and fecondly, it is in fa6t next to a Hate 



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of nature in thefe illes : the hogs and the fowls run about at their 

 cafe the greateft part of the day ^ the lall efpecially, which live en- 

 tirely on what they pick up, without being regularly fed. The 

 dog being here merely kept to be eaten, is not obliged to un- 

 dergo the llavery, to which the varieties of that fpecies are 

 forced to fubmit in our polifhed countries ; he lies at his eafe all 

 the day long, is fed at certain times, and nothing more is required 



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