Rambles Through the Archives of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1688 1700
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" The island is about fifty Dutch miles in circumference, very fruitful, and has a healthy climate. It is watered by many rivers and rivulets. There are also many standing pools, in which eels of twenty-three and twenty- four feet long are caught. They are often as much as five feet thick, but on account of their too great fatness inedible. Those about the thickness of a man's aim are, however, nice and of a good flavour. " Eice grows luxuriantly on the island. They plant their wheat in the wil...d, uncultivated ground, withoxit ploughing it beforehand. Fine and large crops are gene- rally gathered, and from these tliey make their daily bread. " The people likewise plant sugar-cane, tobacco, vinos, and cocoa-nuts. Everytliing grows luxuriantly there. On the beach " Amber de Nord " is found. " Oxen, cows, goats, and pigs are in abundance there. K 130 Bamhles through the Archives of From the residue of their milk they make good cheese. They have, likewise, beautiful and strong horses, both tame and wild ; also wild grapes and numbers of turkeys, fowls, ducks, geese, parrots, and other Indian birds.
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