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Account of
Chap. IX.
Cultivation of Potatoes—Excellent Quality of this Root—Beneficial to the Health of a Ship's Company—The Tricks of the Natives in dealing for this Article—Modes of catching Fish—Cookery—Construction of their Canoes.
The inhabitants of this part of the world are by no means unskilled in arts and manufactures: among the former is their cultivation of the ground. This, it is true, is confined to the growth of one vegetable, but in which they are remarkably successful: I allude to potatoes; and indeed I never met with that root of a better quality: they keep remarkably well, and we provided a stock of them sufficient to supply the whole ship's company for several months.
And here it may not be improper to re-
