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1783. would be as many as would feafl all his meo 5 and the reft* 
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he feared, would fpoil before the next day. The King 
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gave orders to have the other fix cleaned and dreffed for 
keeping, after their own manner, and faid he would fend 
them over in the morning.—It now advancing towards 
fun-fet, the King wifhed the three gentlemen to move 
homewards before it grew dark, as part- of their way over 
land was rugged and hazardous; they therefore took leave 
of him, with many expreffions of thanks for the repeated 
marks of his attention.—In the night there was a very hard 
fquall. 
Saturday 18, Some boiled rice was fent for the King’s breakfafl. 
Soon after, Raa Kook came over land, followed by fix men, 
bearing the fifh ; they were finging all the way through the 
woods, and were heard long before they were feen. The 
fifh were quite fweet and good, and, as the great heat of this 
climate taints all their fifh in a few hours, it may be worth 
while to mention the method they take to preferve them. 
■>—The fifh being well cleaned, wafhed, and fcaled, two flat 
flicks are placed lengthways of the fifh, to fupport and keep 
it flraight, much in the fame manner as meat is laid in a 
cradle fpit; around it are bound fome broad leaves. They 
then make a kind of ftage or trivet, placed about two feet 
from the ground, Handing on four legs, upon which the fifh 
is laid, and a flow fire made underneath, over which it re¬ 
mains for feveral hours, till it becomes fmoke-dried, and 
then 
