CHAP. V.] 
SCARCITY IN VIEW OF PLENTY. 
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as they were driven from the town to pasturage. All 
this amount of beef paraded before me, and did not 
produce a steak. Milk was cheap and abundant ; 
fowls were scarce; corn was plentiful; vegetables 
were unknown; not even pumpkins were grown by 
the Latookas. 
Fortunately there was an abundance of small game 
drake’s head. 
in the shape of wild ducks, pigeons, doves; and a great 
variety of birds such as herons, cranes, spoonbills, &c. 
Travellers should always take as large a supply of 
shot as possible. I had four hundred weight, and 
prodigious quantities of powder and caps, thus I. could 
at all times kill sufficient game for ourselves and 
