314 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



fields, which is very like this Chinefe fpinage, 

 inftead of true fpinage. 



The leaf of a kind of pepper called Betel 

 {Piper betle Linnau) is wrapt about the nuts, 

 which the Chinefe are continually chewing. 



Chinese mujhrooms s ; of thefe the katty, 

 or pound, is fold at Canton for two mes, but 

 they took four kanderin more per katty when 

 they brought them on board the mips. 



Here is no other water than that which is 

 taken out of the river. For fix hours together 

 the fait water is brought up into it by the tide, 

 and during that time its water is by no means 

 drinkable. And though the water required 

 for common ufes is taken during the fix hours 

 of ebbing, yet it is fomewhat brackifh and 

 muddy. Thus the people here, for want of 

 good water, are obliged to boil the bad, and 

 to mend its tafle with fome tea. 



The Chinefe always drink tea without fugar 

 or milk. The frefli Honam, or Canton tea, 

 which is not agreeable to other peoples palate, 

 h moil ufual in town. They make ufe of no 



* Agaricus Chinenfis, cfr. Fungus, K.emph. 832. 



tea-pot, 



