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heard of the result ee 1 $ Юг тоге {һап 
ven then it was learnt inci- 
rall; 
tidings of which, as of successful benevo- 
lence, did not reach the ues "until after many 
А 
nother devoted missionary (the Rev Joseph 
ыц now settled in Congleton), o laboured 
з at Tahiti, adds his testimony to 
boo nferre South-Sea 
de by the piane > of the dwarf banan 
tells me that he rstood these were brought 
by young Williams f om 1 Cha atsworth in 1838, ew 
that he himself first heard of them in 184+. 
that time the natives had зева мор pink 
and were cultivating them every in prefer- 
ence to all other kinds. “They cook e h 
dds, “in various ways, principally by baking them 
in the native oven, which 1 чч а ^ le ang + 
the ground 
placed, all being t overed up 
missionaries Deer MM filters of them. The 
natives, moreover, make a dish called poipoi” by by 
beating the plantains = a pu mixing it 
with cocoa-nut m is extremely fattening, 
and the chiefs used to amie in it. You might 
often see the mothers with a dish of the aforesaid 
in of 
oi on one side and a (cocoa-nut) 1 
water оп the other, squatting down with le 
child on their ge They would then, after first 
dipping two of their fingers in the water, insert 
them in the ‘poipoi, take out a great р, 
cram it into child’s , and continue the 
operation u р ing showed by unmis- 
ae signs that it could possibly hold no more.” 
rms me 
are joined at all "à and may 
the year round at dinn 
While on the iran ‘of banana-dressing, I would 
Just vues rve that in England neither the cook nor 
the confectioner seems as yet to have taken the 
atter nd, except that at Chatsworth a deli- 
h 
ind of ordinary fruit, 
— кы wbolesome and refres жа ng.— 
On м aon или, 
THE MODE OF робне ТНЕ 
BALSAM ОЕ TOLU. 
Bx Јонх Weir. 
REVIOUS to his Wobei for New ences 
Mr. Weir received instructions to make en 
Tespecting certain interest! ing medicinal hats 
є in that MOM especially Balsam of | 
arrival at В: 
Tolu and pile ee and to тед if possible, 
seeds and иа 
п aceordance with th ‚ Mr. Weir 
has Са the дл ieii notice - 
of his proceedings, 
From enquiries made during the voyage түз рых nd 
ан on landing in this cou 
came from, where I hope 
specimens p collect rub ез formation you desire 
concerning it s, I was told that by 
о on the lower Magdalena 
1 could cross the aes to the valley of the Zinà 
quite as easily as I yay PN the mouth of that 
riv P er from Cartagen 
ollowing u this dete I took a passage to 
Mompox e ths fie apre 
n assur contrary 
knew where some of the balsam ae grew. Wit 
place-we entered the uv 
m i it for 
i р: 
РЕ Ё sith in in the probity of my guide he nly 
ree which he assured me was the 
alsa: 
forming that he t 
tree was certainly not а myroxylon, nor anything 
like 
1 NS ed to Л indisgust. The gentleman 
who recommended the blaek was much disappointed 
on learning the result of our 
ma 
to guide me ws а place where the tree 
found. I went with him a few days anari з 
but with no Better success. 
ve t that the tree occurs within 
sa urney of Mompox, but not in its 
mmediate a for the ground, for leagues 
t 
nd that the tree is never 
ins nd in the low tracks эщ the river, but in 
the higher rolling groun yond, where the soil 
is dr 
Fi nding that the tree was not known in Mompox, 
I left 2 "Plato on the 17th December ; ing the 
rcedes, 
pes к е I went thence to 
Plato in a ea Las еды г the un of E 
Carmen, and dt gesamt only of a large 
for the ее brought from the interior, dd the 
import received in exchan was 
I first ва In the Hon were upwards 
of thirty pem sall of it ready for exportation; most — - 
