For tame Animals they have Hogs, Fowls and Dogs the latter of which we learnd to eat from them and few were there of us but what allowe'd that a South Sea Dog was next to an English Lamb, one thing in their favour is that they live intirely upon Vegetables.   probably our Dogs would not eat half so well.   Little can be said in favour of their fowles but their Pork is most excellent. They have no Beasts of prey of any sort and wild fowle are scarce and confind to a few specious   When any of the Chiefs kill a Hog it seems to be almost equally divided a mong all his dependands and as these are generaly very numerous it is but a little that comes to each persons share so that their chief food is Vegetables and of these they eat a large quantity    Cookery seems to have been but little studied.   here they have only two methods of applying fire  broiling and Baking as we call'd it.   the method this is done I have before described and I am of opinion that Victuals dress'd this way are more juicy and more equally done than by any of our methods, large fish in particular   Bread fruit, Bananoes and Plantains dcook'd this way eats like boild Potatoes and was used by us by way of bread when ever we could get them.   of bread fruit they make two or three dishes by beating it with a stone pestil till it makes a paste mixing water or cocoa nut liquor _^ ^{or both} with it and adding ripe plantains bananoes _^ ^{Sour paste} &C^a the paste made of the bread fruit alone

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