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that are not the fpontaneous produc- 

 tions of Nature ; and in this climate, 

 one month's labour annually is amply 

 fufficient for the cultivation of thele 

 produ&ions. 



An appetite for animal food, and the 

 facility of acquiring it in this country, 

 has rendered the men all hunters ; and 

 indeed hunting is almoft their only em- 

 ployment. Whenever their meat is at 

 an end, the hufband takes his arrows, 

 and goes in quell of game. If he is 

 unfuccefsful in his fearch after Deer, 

 Labba's, &c. he fits down by a tree, and 

 imitates the cry of a Puccarara, or In- 

 dia?! Coney ; and as they are very nu- 

 merous, feveral of them foon appear, of 

 which he moots as many as he wants, 

 and returns home, where he continues 

 till hunger reminds him that his meat 

 is gone. If he has an appetite for fifh, 

 he goes to a fmall creek, emptying into 



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