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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, Vol. 3 [of 3]

Note 4 — Chapter XIX

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Dampier says, “The land-turtles are here so numerous, that five or six hundred men might subsist on them for several months without any other sort of provisions. They are so extraordinarily large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly.”—Vol. i., p. 110.

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