1/70. ROUND THE WORLD. SIJ 



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mirers, but as soon as night comes on, it diffuses its 

 fragrance, and at once compels the attention, and 

 excites the complacency of all who approach it. 



These are all sold about the streets every evening 

 at sunset, either strung upon a thread, in wreaths of 

 about two feet long, or made up into nosegays of 

 different forms, either of which may be purchased for 

 about a halfpenny. Besides these, there are, in pri- 

 vate gardens, many other sweet flowers, which are 

 not produced in a sufficient quantity to be brought 

 to market. With a mixture of these flowers, and the 

 leaves of a plant called pandang, cut into small pieces, 

 persons of both sexes fill their hair and their clothes, 

 and with the same mixture indulge a much higher 

 luxury by strewing it on their beds, so that the 

 chamber in which they sleep, breathes the richest 

 and purest of all odours, unallayed by the fumes 

 which cannot but arise where the sleeper lies under 

 two or three blankets and a quilt, for the bed covering 

 here is nothing more than a single piece of fine chintz. 



Before I close my account of the vegetable pro- 

 ductions of this part of India, I must take some 

 notice of the spices. Java originally produced none 

 but pepper. This is now sent from hence into 

 Europe to a great value, but the quantity consumed 

 here is very small : the inhabitants use Capsicum, or, 

 as it is called in Europe, Cayan pepper, almost uni- 

 versally in its stead. Cloves and nutmegs, having 

 been monopolized by the Dutch, are become too dear 

 to be plentifully used by the other inhabitants of this 

 country, who are very fond of them. Cloves, although 

 they are said originally to have been the produce of 

 Machian, or Bachian, a small island far to the east- 

 ward, and onlv fifteen miles to the northward of the 

 line, and to have been from thence disseminated by 

 the Dutch, at their first coming into these parts, over 

 all the eastern islands, are now confined to Amboina, 

 and the small isles that lie in its neighbourhood ; the 

 Dutch having, by different treaties of peace between 



