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they made their fweel>drink. Their fweetmeats werejbf
three forts the firft, and* thes one that was moft plentiful,
' was made of the kernels of old cocoa-nuts, fcraped into, a
v. coarfe ...kind of flour, then mixed with the fyrup, . and
fimmerqdover a- AhW fire till it became of a propen con-
fiftence, and whilft warm was put up in leaves ; it acquired
fuch hardnefs by keeping, that a knife would hardly cut
it : the natives called it Woojell, and it was 'the .fame^our
—The^econd fort
o f the fruit- already m a p p e d asv;refqm.bling;the almond,
not hruifed, but4 whole, boiled in th^f^rne manner, , and
'put ipi le ^ e s - - t t^ e third was a ®vet fweetmeat/pleaf. and
tranfparent; this was uncommon, but was made at Qgp-
tain W il so n ’s coming away, and prefented tn himJn the
fame lafge tureeniof4wood which, was brought out. on'his
firft vifit to the King. . A bba THULL%when he prefenteflit,
• laid, that he gave him the tureepf,. but that.lusywly^.had
prepared the fweetmgat on purpofe for him* On the Captain’s
noticing that it appeared v different from any of the
m forts he had feen before, and willring to know of what
it was made, Raa Kook difpatched a man, who. in. an
hour returned with two freflitgathered plants ; fromLhe
root of them, this fweetmeat was. made, which in fliape,
fize, and colour, refembled a common turnip; its leaves
* Our people could never learn the name by ■ which, the natives called this veflel, of
1 which one only w** therefore have, termed it 3 tureen, as refeinblihg it in
form.
were
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.%&efe I three” feeti of iyu^ivairds • in .lengthy but narrow and
greeh'*-; ' C ap ta in 'W ilson, was'going' to taffei/a? bit o f
the roQtiraw/but the.ydvould'not; fuffer him, fignifying that
it Was ttOtf/gOod,'' by fpitti'rig, as'.if; they had fohietbing un-
pleafant I 'ini rtheirt mouth. This-f^eefnfeat did- not keep fo
well as file other two fdftsy growing fodri lour:—They had alfo
a methodlaf fcrapiUg the kernel.of thhcocoa-nut^ntpapulp,
Which'When mixed, with fomfe oTtheir fweet drink, and the
jhipel o f the! four orangey had the mppekrahce1 o f curds and
-^Th^tfhi'od^of jpfefervlng.fiffi, when there was plenty, fo
that? it< wobld k e ep Ta daiy'ortwO, has been fu lly ^ p la ined in
page 190. Some of th'e Other forts of- fiih they boiled in falt-
water, and eat without any kind o f fauce; they alfo boiled
the fea cray-fifn; but the fmaller fort bffliell-filh, and the
Kima Cockle, they ufually eat raw, fqueezing only a little
orange or lemon-juice over i t ; and the grey mullet (though
'they fometimcs boiled it)Hyet was more commonly eaten
raw: as foori as caught, they cleaned and crimped it, then
laid it about an hour in the fun to harden, by which time it
was fully dreft to their tafte. | -1
They had no fait, nor did they make ufe o f fauce or deafening
in any thing they eat. Their drink was as Ample as
their diet: at their meals*: the milk o f the coce%-nut was their
* It; was probably the Tacca pinnatifi'da of laNNiEtrs*
R i ufual