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oranges and lemons; neither of thefe were in any conlider- 
able quantity; therefore only produced on vilits, or occa- 
lions of more than common ceremony.—To thefe may be 
added, the jamboo-apple, mentioned in page 257, as brought 
when Lee Boo firft appeared.—This country produced 
fome fugar-cane, and great abundance of the bamboo; like- 
wife the Turmeric , which the natives ufed as a dye, and 
with which the women Itained their Ikins. —They have 
ochre, both red and yellow, with which they paint their 
houfes and canoes. 
None of the illands the Englijh vilited had any kind of 
grain; nor any quadruped whatever, except fome brownifh 
grey rats, which ran wild in the woods, and three or four 
meagre cats, which were feen in fome houfes at Pelew, 
probably brought on fome drift or part of a canoe of other 
iflands, wrecked on the reef.—This might excite them to ad¬ 
mire fo much the two dogs our people left with them, which 
unluckily were both males. 
As to birds, they had plenty of common cocks and hens, 
which, though they were not domefticated, but ran about 
the woods, yet loved to get near their houfes and planta¬ 
tions ; and, what will appear lingular (conlidering their 
little variety of food) they had never made any ufe of 
them, till our people faw them, and told the natives they 
were excellent to eat.—The Englijb , at the delire of Abba 
T h u l l e, killed fome, and boiled them; the King was 
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