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ground. This plant was as yet fo fmall, that 

 I could not tell whether it was or was not the 

 Amaranthns trijlis. I was (hewn, bu: at a 

 great diftance, how the high fields about Boc~ 

 ca Tiger were green with a plant out of whofe 

 feeds the Cbinefe prefs their oil, which they 

 call loam. It is faid they have a trick of boil- 

 ing the feed before they fell it. It is mod 

 probably Sefamum. We vifited their fail-cloth 

 manufacture of bambou fplints on which bambou. 

 leaves are laid. They call it Tiock-yee. The 

 ropes are likeWife made of bambou threads. 

 Here alfo was a place where both great and 

 fmall boats were built ; and rudders, and feve- 

 ral mills to grind rice, &c. were made. On 

 the fields the Poa Malabarica was growing ; 

 and near the pales and enclofures a fort of 

 reed, which the Cbinefe call Luta, and looks 

 like Arundo donax. I at laft got for a piaftre 

 twenty-five kinds of pot-herbs. 



The 2 1 ft of December. m 



I again returned to the fhip, and met the 

 (hip chaplain Toreen in the bancftial ; he had 

 buried a failor on the French IJland, who died 

 of a pain in his fide aboard our fhip. 



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