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lated ; yet their coolness recommends them in this 

 hot country. 



21. Jambu-eyer mauwar. The Eugenia jambos of 

 Linnaeus. This is more grateful to the smell than 

 the taste ; in taste it resembles the conserve of roses, 

 and in smell the fresh scent of those flowers. 



22. The pomegranate. This is the same fruit that 

 is known by the same name all over Europe. 



23. Durion. A fruit that in shape resembles a 

 small melon, but the skin is covered with sharp co- 

 nical spines, whence its name ; for dure, in the Ma- 

 lay language, signifies prickle. When it is ripe, it 

 divides longitudinally into seven or eight compart- 

 ments, each of which contains six or seven nuts, not 

 quite so large as chestnuts, which are covered with 

 a substance that in colour and consistence very much 

 resembles thick cream : this is the part that is eaten, 

 and the natives are fond of it to excess. To Euro- 

 peans it is generally disagreeable at first; for in taste, 

 it somewhat resembles a mixture of cream, sugar, and 

 onions ; and in the smell, the onions predominate. 



24. Nanca. This fruit, which in some parts of 

 India is called Jakes, has, like the Durion, a smell 

 very disagreeable to strangers, and somewhat re- 

 sembling that of mellow apples mixed with garlick : 

 the flavour is not more adapted to the general taste. 

 In some countries that are favourable to it, it is said 

 to grow to an immense size. Rumphius relates, that 

 it is sometimes so large that a man cannot easily lift 

 it -, and we were told by a Malay, that at Madura it 

 is sometimes so large as not to be carried but by the 

 united efforts of two men. At Batavia, however, 

 they never exceed the size of a large melon, which 

 in shape they very much resemble : they are covered 

 with angular prickles, like the shootings of some 

 chrystals, which however are not hard enough to 

 wound those who handle them. 



25. Champada. This differs from the Nanca in 

 little except size, it not being so big. 



