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invitations, which their hofpitable difpoiition never failed to exprefs aniM al 

 dn the moft engaging manner. At New-Zeeland too, the inhabi- 

 tants though lefs hofpitable, and more uncleanly, yet drefs their 

 -fifli with fo much care, that a man with a good appetite v/ould not 

 refufe to eat with them. But the people of Tierra del Fuego 



being fcarce 



covered 



are not only miferable in their appearance, 



with a bit of feal's iliin, but they are likewife highly difguflful in 



the manner of taking their food, which confifts of rav/ feals ?i<t{hy 



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almofl putrid, and of which the rank fat is to their tafte the moil 

 delicious part : in other places v/here feals are more fcarce, they 

 derive their fubfiftence from the mufcle-fhells, which are common 

 on the rocks. We found vafl refrefliment from the animals in the 



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various countries we met with, and only in a few inftances fuifered 

 by eating fome fpeci^s of iifli. The one of thefe was a Spams, of 

 which three were caught at Mallicollo, the largefl about iiitQ,tn 



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inches long : about fixteen perfons eat of thefe three fi£h, and found 

 tliemfelves affected with a prodigious numbnefs, which foon made 



them quite giddy, and incapable of ftanding; they had afterv/ards 



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excruciating pains in all their bones, which did not go off till tzn 

 'days afterwards, by the continual ufe of vomits, and fudorifics. 

 A hog that eat part of the entrails, fwelled prodigiouily, and died 



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a few hours after: feveral dogs alfo which eat of the offal, lay for 



a fortnight in th 



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e greatefl agonies, howling and foaming at the 



m.outh, utterly incapable of {landing on their legs. A little 



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