250 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



twelve o'clock, and found other Java men 

 there, expofing cocoa-nuts, and the following 

 things to fale : 



Tobacco, which they chewed with Areca. 

 The tobacco was cut from broad, thin, green 

 leaves, into narrow flripes. It is faid that it 

 is very good for fmoaking, and might be the 

 Ktcotiana peniculata. 



Brown powder fugar in half cocoa-nut-fhells, 

 put together and tied with leaves. 



Bottles of Gourds, (or of the Cucurbita la- 

 genaria Linn.) filled with water, as it is made 

 up for their own ufe, and for fale. 



Shells, particularly Cowries, 



Cucurbita pepo. 



Citrus decumana Linn, the {haddock, Is a 

 great, roundifh fruit, like fweet or China 

 oranges, and eaten inftead of fuch ; yet it is 

 much larger than a China orange, and rather 

 fourer, and is therefore better to quench thirft . 

 The peel is fpungy, of the thicknefs of a 

 finger, bitter as a Seville orange, to which this 

 £ne. fruu is very near akin. 



There 



