"Bisket twenty five shillings a hundred, Salt at an excessive rate, pickled-herrin for winter bait Four and five pound a barrel (with which they speed not so well as the waggish lad at Cape-porpus, who baited his hooks with the drown'd Negro's buttocks) so for Pork and Beef." - Josselyn, p. 159

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An Account of Two Vogages to New-England - Made during the years 1638, 1663 - John Josselyn (1674, republished 1865) Available online via Google Books at https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Account_of_Two_Voyages_to_New_England/eIlDAQAAMAAJ?q=&gbpv=0#f=false