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some of the women came to me complaining
that all the cow was eaten & they had got
[in margin crossed out: Their ought to have been at least 7 or 8 pounds for each in-dividual as you can see]
nothing. But then whilst they can eat so
much at once, it is nothing uncommon with
them to go 2 or 3 or 4 days without a
substantial meal, often a whole day without
tasting any thing but water, [insert: a little water]. Of wild fruits
scarcely any thing grows worth naming, but there
are various roots of herbs which they eat, some-
times they roast them in hot ashes. Their meat
they often eat half raw. But they know to
roast or steam larger portions of meat
as to render it both wholesome & [tasy, crossed out] & well flavored. [by a huge fire, crossed out]
[margin: By means of a huge fire]
They make a number of stones hot, [make a, crossed out]
[construct?] a sort of oven with them, throw some hot stones
& green branches on the meat, it may be besides [indecipherable]
hot ashes. The meat is roasted especially if there [words crossed out]
[flavored, crossed out] be a good quantity, proves a kind of feast to them. They are particularly fond of
a species of grubs they find in little holes
in trees, these they often eat raw, with much
gusto. I remember one morning [immediately, crossed out]
after breakfast walking out into the bush
accompanied by one of our most civilized
Blacks. He had just eaten a hearty break-
fast of mutton jobs & damper. He noticed
a little hole in a tree, had with him a small
[little, crossed out] thin piece of wood with a hook at the end
such as they use. This he [thrusts, crossed out] pushed into the hole