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the night, and had unfortunately thrown away the garbage, fcraped preser 

 the fcales, and cut away the gills and fins. The fcarcity of frefh 

 food made this laft fifh a defirable obje^:, notwithHanding the eating 

 of the formet had caufed very alarming fymptoms. The failor 

 therefore falted the fi{h, and let it hang three or four days, and 

 then eat it in company with his mefs-mates, without feeling th 

 leaft bad eiFecfts from this imprudent ilep*^ The fifh had in its 

 mangled flate a fimilarity to the red gilthead [Sparus Pagrusy Linn.) 

 which is the more probable, fince Quiros obferved that his whole 

 fhip's crew were poifoned at the fame place by a fifli, which he 

 called Par go. * The fame night that the reddifh fifhes were caught 



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at Mallioollo, feveral rock-fifli, [Labri) an Indian fucking-fifli, 

 (Echeneis Neucrates) and a fhark nine feet long were likewife 

 caught and eaten that day, without cauling any alarming fymptoms. 



When we came to New-Caledon 



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killed at the mouth of 



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a frefh-water river on the reef, a new cartilaginous fifh of the 



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genus called by Linnaeus Tetrodon, The Captain's Clerk bought 

 it for the Captaia, and after we had made a defcription and llietch 



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of it, it was ordered the next day for dinner. My fon as weM as 

 myfelf told Capt. Cook that we were of opinion the fifli was not 



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for food, as it belonged to a fufj^icious clafs; but 



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* Dalryraple^s Colle£tioii of Voyages, voT. 1, -p. 140, 141. 



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