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THE 



ANIMAL favourite 



parroquet, w 



hicli eat a bit of the fiili, likevfife died in 



KINGDOM 



confeauence of it. 



Sometime afterwards, I was told that a iifli of 





the fame fuecies was caught at Tanna by feme of the failcrs, who 

 faked it and eat it, vathout any ill effeds y from whence it. is to, be 

 fuppofed that this fpecies is not poifonous in itfelf, but only from 





od wh 





den 



th 



th 



fame manner as 



many fifli in the Weft Indies, otherwife very wholefome to eat, 

 are faid to become deleterious, by feeding on the manchineel apr 



fpecies of te trod on, whofe 



a nev/ 



pies. ' The other fort was 



ly appearance alone might have prejudiced us againil it, had we 



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been any ways nice 5 but fo much is the value of frefh provifions 

 enhanced by being long at fea,. that we were glad of even this op- 

 portunityof eating an ill-looking animal. Only three of us eat a 

 very fmall bit of the liver, not above two or three morfeis each at 

 fupper ; before tw^o o'clock the next morning. 



we were all . up. 



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complaining of the effeas of the poifon, which operated exadly as 

 that of the fparus had done before : we immediately took vomits, 



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and having evacuated all we had eaten,, efcaped v/ith a giddinefs, 

 lafting only a few days, without any of the acute pain experienced in 

 the other inilance. Another hog then on board, unfortunately tailing 

 the entrails, fv/elled as the other had done and died : fometime after, 

 ther TETRODON of the fame fpecies, was caught, and being 

 opened, one of the dogs eat a fmall quantity of the entrails, and 

 lived in the mofl dreadful agonies for a fortnight after, fo that h 



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