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row, plantains, fugar-canes, and bread-fruit. Tothefe, the 1779. 
people of a higher rank add the flefh of hogs and dogs, t Mardl 
dreffed in the fame manner as at the Society Illands. They 
alfo eat fowls of the fame domeftic kind with ours; but 
they are neither plentiful, nor much efleemed by them. It 
is remarked by Captain Cook, that the bread-fruit and yams 
appeared lcarce among!!: them, and were reckoned great 
rarities. We found this not to be the cafe on our fecond 
viftt; and it is therefore mod: probable, that, as thefe vege¬ 
tables were generally planted in the interior parts of the 
country, the natives had not had time to bring them down 
to us, during the fhort ftay we made in Wymoa Bay. Their 
filh they fait, and preferve in gourcl-fhells; not, as we at 
fil'd imagined, for the purpofe of providing again ft any 
temporary fcarcity, but from the preference they give to 
falted meats. For we alfo found, that the Erees ufed to 
pickle pieces of pork in the fame manner, and efteemed it 
a great delicacy. 
Their cookery is exactly of the fame fort with that al¬ 
ready defcribed, in the accounts that have been publifhed 
of the other South Sea illands; and though Captain Cook 
complains of the fournefs of their tarrow puddings, yet, in 
juftice to the many excellent meals they afforded us in Ka- 
rakakooa Bay, I mu ft be permitted to refcue them from 
this general cenfure, and to declare, that I never eat better 
even in the Friendly Illands. It is however remarkable, 
that they had not got the art of preferving the bread-fruit, 
and making the four pafte of it called Maihee , as at the So¬ 
ciety Illands; and it was fome fatisfadlion to us, in return 
for their great kindnefs and hofpitality, to have it in our 
power to teach them this ufeful fecret. They are exceed¬ 
ingly cleanly at their meals ; and their mode of drafting 
both 
