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"Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850"


But now for the _bat_:--
"La _chauve-souris_ est ici de la grosseur d'une poule. Cet
_oiseau_ ne vit que de fruits et de grains, et c'est un mets
fort commun dans le pays. J'avois de la repugnance a suivre
l'exemple de ceux qui en mangeoient; mais en ayant goute par
surprise, j'en trouvai la chair fort delicate. On peut dire
que cet _animal_, qu'on abhorre naturellement, n'a rien de
mauvais que la figure."
The Italics are mine; but they serve to show how the confusion has
arisen. The writer speaks of the almost entire extinction of the land
Turtles, which were formerly abundant; and says, that the island was
well stocked with goats and wild hogs, but for some time they had
retreated to the mountains, where no one dared venture to wage war
upon them.
Again, in the _Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse par l'Ocean Oriental et
le Detroit de la Mer rouge, dans les Annees 1708-10_ (Paris, 1716,
12mo.), the vessels visit both Mauritius and Bourbon, and some account
of the then state of both islands is given.


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