3 o8 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



Lat-yee is the Chbiefe name of a fruit, 

 which is here eaten with tea. This fruit taftes 

 almoft like a fort of our plumbs, and looks 

 like large gall-apples, covered with a browniih, 

 thin, and warty lkin* 



Lang -an is lefs than Lat-yee ; they have a 

 fmooth Jkin, and fweet pulp, as in the Lat- 

 yee <i . 



Plain tain tree, (Mufa paradijlacd) fee 

 page 151, is called Tfeu by the Cbinefe* When 

 the yellow ikin is pulled off; which muft be 

 done by the fingers without a knife, that the 

 iron may not alter the tafte, the fruit itfelf is 

 as foft as dough, and of an agreeable fweet- 

 nefs. It is believed that Adam after his tranf- 

 greflion in paradife covered himfelf with the 

 fp reading leaves of this plant r * 



Mango (Mangifera Indica) is the name of 

 that fruit which is in China fold by the name 



*5 An CufTambium? Rumpb. lib. i. p. 154, T. 57. 



r The Plaintain tree has flowered for the firft time in the 

 year 1755, in the Vpfal garden, and has alfo brought forth 

 ripe fruits. 



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