TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



board a bamboo item, wUich is fattened to two 

 outriggers, and keeps the boat from ovcrfet- 

 ting, as it otherwife would do on the account 

 of its lighmefs. The javanefe brought cocoa- 

 nuts, plaintains, citrons, lcmties or lemontycs 

 (as the Dutch and our faiiors call them), on 

 board. The latter of thefe fruits is found to 

 be very plentiful in all fouthern Eajl India, 

 and is like a citron ; I never faw its flower, 

 but both Mr. OJbeck and myfelf have always 

 found the fruit to be ten jocular e . Befides 

 this, they had a fort of coarfe brown fugar 

 made of palm-trees, which the crew was for- 

 bid to purchafe, becaufe it occafions flrong 

 dyfenteries ; they likewife brought fowls, 

 fifties, tortoifes, fertularia, and fome daggers 

 of good workmanfhip, the blades of which 

 were undulated, and, as I was told, poifoned. 



The 1 1 ft of January we left this place, and 

 experienced the weather at the Cape in March, 

 which as uiual was very difagreeable, and fluff- 

 ing from florins to cairns. We here faw one 

 of thofe tortoifes called Hazvkjbills by the 



• The fume, is obfervable hi lemons : and this number 

 of leculi feems to be the moil: nr.mral in proportion to the 

 petals and Jlamina, though they are alio found eight aid 

 jvvclve hoilar, D. S. See vol. i. p. 506. 



