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 their own tables, as the most excellent beef."

 

Among the number of odd things in New Holland, the amphibious fish is not the least remarkable. "We found (says Captain Cook) a small fish of a singular kind; it was about the size of a minnow, and had two very strong breast fins; we found it in places that were quite dry, where we supposed it might have been left by the tide, but it did not seem to have become languid by the want of water; for upon our approach it leaped away, by the help of the breast fins, as nimbly as a frog; neither indeed did it seem to prefer water to land; for when we found it in the water, it frequently leaped out and pursued its way upon dry ground; we also observed that when it was in places where small stones were standing upon the surface of the water at a little distance from each other, it chose 