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The English from Boston bring to Saint Christopher's in boats of 40 to 50 tons a great deal of dried cod, a little green cod, salmon and sturgeon in barrels, along with barrels of marinated oysters. There are a few shellfish along the coast, namely sea urchins, barnacles and burgotes. The latter are the best to eat and if, when collecting them, you place them in a basket on a white cloth, they release a foam that dyes the cloth a beautiful purple red colour that only disappears after two washes. There are no mussels, oysters or pearls. There are red crabs at the top of the mountains which are excellent but a little musky. In March, they change their shells and retreat into their holes, which they block with earth. When they are fat and full of roe, they are dug up. They are excellent to eat in the following May. Once their shells have hardened and their eggs have formed, they leave the woods to bathe in the sea and lay their eggs. There are soldiers along the coast. This animal changes its shell in March and April. We have never seen crocodiles. We catch large lizards in the woods that live only on leaves. We skin them, cut them into pieces, blanch them in warm water and make a fricassee like chicken. Done at Fort Royal on 5 December 1722 Lepau-Feuquiere Benard

The English from Boston bring to Saint Christopher's in boats of 40 to 50 tons a great deal of dried cod, a little green cod, salmon and sturgeon in barrels, along with barrels of marinated oysters. There are a few shellfish along the coast, namely sea urchins, barnacles and burgotes. The latter are the best to eat and if, when collecting them, you place them in a basket on a white cloth, they release a foam that dyes the cloth a beautiful purple red colour that only disappears after two washes. There are no mussels, oysters or pearls. There are red crabs at the top of the mountains which are excellent but a little musky. In March, they change their shells and retreat into their holes, which they block with earth. When they are fat and full of roe, they are dug up. They are excellent to eat in the following May. Once their shells have hardened and their eggs have formed, they leave the woods to bathe in the sea and lay their eggs. There are soldiers along the coast. This animal changes its shell in March and April. We have never seen crocodiles. We catch large lizards in the woods that live only on leaves. We skin them, cut them into pieces, blanch them in warm water and make a fricassee like chicken. Done at Fort Royal on 5 December 1722 Lepau-Feuquiere Benard

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

Mullet is abundant and excellent. It is like those in France but better and bigger. It is salted and it keeps wonderfully by drying it after salting it. There are also some that are smoked like salmon. The trout is abundant, much larger and as good as the best in France. They keep better in salting than the male. The rougeris abundant in all seasons. This fish is usually 3 and a half feet long. Some are up to 5 and a half feet long. It is spotted with black marks and has flesh almost like carp. It is one of the best fish on the coast and it can be salted. Sarde is a fish almost like cod which, being salted, has flesh like salmon. This fish is found around the mouth of the Mississippi and towards Pensacola in abundance in almost all seasons. Considerable salting can be done. There are captains who are certain that they can usually load ships with them. This fish does not frequent the coast but the islands east and west of the Mississippi. There are a very large number of other very excellent fish. There is a species of uncurled ray which is very abundant and excellent. It is called in the country taire. It is found along the entire coast in all rivers. There is another species of fish that we have called carangue which is usually a length of 3...

[up to 4 and a half feet long. Very large in its species, appearing short, with a monstrous head, this fish is found throughout the coast and rivers of the country.] It has a flesh that one would mistake for meat, mainly veal. It is of unparalleled excellence.We cut it into slices and prepare it like veal and any other meat. We lard it like beef. This is one of the most common and best. It seems that it could be marinated like tuna. There are plaice all the time along the entire coast and in the rivers to a certain extent. This fish is shaped like a limande or plie and comes in all sizes, from 9 to 10 inches to almost 2 feet. It is about two thirds of its length wide. It?s a fish that would be priceless in France. For its quality, it still surpasses all others and could be presented to a king as a delicacy. There are still burgos that have scales of almost the same shape. It is still one of the best fish you can find. It's not quite that big, or that strong.There are sometimes real hake or cod there, but rarely like those that we fish along the coast and in the rivers and that we do not fish offshore like everywhere else. It is presumed that there are a very large number of unknown fish which usually never come to the coast.There are monstrous carp in the rivers, not the best, but somewhat passable. There are also eels in different places as good as those of Europe. There are two species of river fish that are usually called big mouths and big ears. These two kinds of fish would be priceless in France for their taste and goodness. In Mobile, there are a very large number of brochelansin in swamps, which makes one believe that they could be found everywhere else. There is also a species of small fish called patassar, up to 7 to 8 inches long, mostly less than that. It is still a very exquisite and very excellent fish. There are crayfish and shrimp in very large quantities. There are sardines not in the shape of those from France. They are much larger and wider, but they have the same taste and goodness. There is such a large quantity that we find whole shoals of them, and in its season, all the rivers are filled with them. We salt it. There are French people in the country who trade it with other inhabitants. The whole country, that is to say, the coast and the river, are full of very large cancres which are better than in Europe. We are not aware of any salmon there. We are only talking here about the coast in general up to 10 or 12 leagues in the rivers. The beaver is found in the upper parts of rivers. We did not see any seals, nor any sea ox or sea calf of this species. No whale has ever been seen in the country. There are no turtles like in Madagascar and Bourbon Island. There are small land turtles like at the Cape of Good Hope. There are also a lot of sea turtles on different banks and islets almost all the time, except during very cold weather. They lay eggs there during two seasons, in March-April and September-October. There?s no [?]