The Cabbage, When
Cut Out From Among The Roots Of The Branches, Is Usually A Foot Long And
Six Inches Diameter, And As White As Milk.
From the bottom of the
cabbage there spring out several large bunches of berries, like grapes,
each bunch being five or six pounds weight.
The berries are red, and
about the size of cherries, each having a large stone in the middle, and
the pulp tastes like that of haws.
The sea-lion is so called, as I suppose, because he roars somewhat like
a lion, and his head also has some resemblance to that animal, having
four large teeth in front, all the rest being short, thick, and stubbed.
Instead of feet and legs, he has four fins; the two foremost serving
him, when he goes ashore, to raise the fore part of the body, and he
then draws the hind part after him. The two hinder fins are of no use on
land, but only when in the water. This animal is very fat, for which
reason we killed several of them, from which we made a ton of oil for
our lamps; and, while at this island, made use of it also for frying our
fish. They have short light-coloured hair while young, becoming sandy
when old. Their food is fish, and they prey altogether in the water, but
come on land to sleep, when five, six, or more of them huddle together
like swine, and will often lie still three or four days, if not
molested.
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