J8 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 



the manner of a fricafeed chicken. Thefe 

 animals are fo hideous, that the very fight 

 of them frightens our failors ; yet when 

 one can overcome that difguft which is in- 

 fpired only by the idea of their figure, their 

 flelh is found to be much more palatable 

 than that of our beft fowls. 



The Malegaches catch immenfe quantities 

 both of fea and frefh-water fifh. 



The dorado, breams of different kinds, 

 foles, pilchards, much larger^ but not fo good 

 or fo fat as ours, herrings, mackarel, oyfters, 

 mufcles, crabs, and turtle, furnlfli food in 

 abundance to the iflanders who liye on the 

 borders of the fea. The rivers alfo fupply 

 them with very fine eels, and frefh water 

 mullets, in tafte and excellence preferable 

 to fea mullets. On thefe coafts there are a 

 great many kinds of fifh, which one muft: 

 not eat without trying whether they arc 

 poifonous, by putting a piece of filver under 



their 



