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You observe that his skin serves us as a house; from his bones we form all our implements from his sinews, our thickest ropes down to our finest thread. The dress we wear is composed of the belly-part of the skin, dressed with a sort of soap, composed of the alkali obtained from the sea-weed which abounds in the lake, and the oil of the whale.
This is the most expensive article of our manufactures; it is the belly-part of the calf's skin, which being white, admits of a dye from the murex a shell fish, very common on our shores." "Have you money?" inquired I. "None we exchange; but the chief article of exchange, and which serves as money, is the whale cheese, which keeps for years, and improves in quality.
When the Belly-part of the Hog is enough, and turn'd upwards, and well fix'd, to be steady upon the Grid-Iron, or Barbacue, pour into the Belly of the Hog, three or four Quarts of Water, and half as much White-Wine, and as much Salt as you will, with some Sage cut small; adding the Peels of six or eight Lemons, and an Ounce of fresh Cloves whole.
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