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Their food consists principally of bread-fruit and fish : they 
have, however, yams, cocoa-nuts, and plantains, the latter of 
which they preserve dry, in the same manner as is practised 
in Guzerat. They possess some tame goats, fowls, and 
abundance of pigs. We saw only one dog, and he appeared 
to be of European parentage. Rats, something larger than 
the common South-sea rat, abound; but we found none of 
the lizards so common in the other South-sea isles. 
We saw a green dove, but could not get it: another of 
the same genus, extremely beautiful, which we named Co- 
lumba Byronensis. We also saw a fine duck, a species of 
scolopar; a blue and white heron; a hawk; a king-fisher 
peculiar, and called by us Alcedo Mautiensis; a starling, 
and some tarn and petrels. We were unable to procure 
any insects, but saw some very beautiful varieties of butter¬ 
fly, and flying-bugs and beetles. 
Our time on shore was so limited that we could only 
observe such plants as grew on our road, such as coco, pan- 
danus, bread-fruit, and some immense trees, of twenty-five 
feet in girth, unknown to us. 
The shore presented no great variety of shells : a few 
species of murex and cowrie, a trochus, a turbo, and a pa¬ 
tella, yellow in the inside, were all we found; but it must 
be remembered that we saw only the spot where we landed, 
and that our visit was short and hurried. 
