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wants no fupport in cafe it is not too much ex- 

 poled to the wind. It is treated as the former* 

 With thefe pcafe they feed the parrots. 

 Among the many feeds which I brought to 

 Sweden, was a kind of fmall green peafe, 

 which was fo nicely eat up by the worms at 

 my arrival, that nothing but the hulks were 

 left, which ferved as a nidlis to the little 

 beetles, with which they were almoft filled. 

 They were doubriefs (lifted in the paper into 

 which I had put the peafe. 



Fdau-fu, or Tou-fu, which has been men- 

 tioned page 2 1 8j was fold by pieces in feveral 

 places. The Cklneje (hewed me a fort of 

 fmall peafe, which they call U-avg-teo, and 

 of which cheefe is faid to be made, though the 

 name gives reafon to conjecture that it has 

 been made from Tao, which are the Chimfe 

 beans, or Calhavfcs. 



Ling-kamm, or Lcng-ha among' the Chi- 

 nefe, (Trapa naiahs -) is a fruit which looks 

 like two herns put together, and has a kernel 

 in the middle. It was fold in the (hops which 

 We fhould call huckfters, and enten by poof 



* Trapa bicornis, Vid. 'Plum. tccn. T. 67. 



^ T o l. I. X people. 



