5 io OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



Carrots of the white fort were not very 

 good. The Chinefe pound of them was fold 

 for four flivers. 



Gnao, or Laen-gao (Nymphaa Nelumbo) is 

 a fort of white roots of the thicknefs of car- 

 rots, but longer, articulated like a bamboo- 

 flick, and hollow in the infide. Poor people 

 eat them raw, but they are not very palat- 

 able. They are planted in a moift clay 

 ground. 



O-o-tao are roots fo called by the Chinefe ; 

 they cannot be eaten raw, becaufe the acidity 

 would prevent the action of fwallowing. None 

 of us Europeans would tafle them. 



Bamboo roots {Arundo bambos) is what we 

 call Ajla, when preferved with fait, vinegar, 

 leek, and Guinea pepper (Capficuni). This 

 is the only root of all thofe above mentioned 

 which we make ufe of. A pot of Afia is fold 

 here for eleven dollars copper money. 



Preserved ginger > or the Kaong of the 



Chinefe. 



Dry 



