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 The vegetables we found and conidered as wholeome eculents, were beans and the moliemolle [sic] tree, from whoe leaves was made a very wholeome tea, of an aromatic mell and pleaant tate: but it is much maller than that decribed by Mr. Falkner, though it was from his decription of its leaf and fruit that I dicovered it. The prickly pear, which is a very overeign anticorbutic, grows here alo in great exuberance: it is of two kinds, white and red; but the former is conidered as the mot efficacious, and furnihed us with the means of procuring many wholeome, as well as palatable, pies and puddings. The animal food which we procured here, conited of crows, owls, doves, black-birds, thruhes, parrows, finches, and humming birds; beides water fowl—uch as teal, and larks, and various other ea birds, in great numbers. The fih we took were land-crabs, ea-crabs, craw-fih, colche with emicircular mouths, limpets, oyters, and other hell-fih. To thee may be added cod, rays, eels, and all thoe that are uually taken in tropical latitudes. The only novelty I found among the deep water fih, was one which bore ome reemblance to the parrot fih, with a large hump