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and whole cargoes sold for ten or twelve rupees per 

 hundred ; as are cargoes of fhrimps, beat up into a 

 paste and dried in the sun, often carried in boats, in 

 bulk, up to Ava the capital. Thej call it blatehang 

 or barlychang. 



The Pegu cocoa nuts are inferior to those that 

 - frrow near the sea, therefore they are fond of those 

 from the islands lying off the coast. 



The men Ibould have a pint of tea. Tea on.fhore 

 to working people, may not be so good' as' malt 

 liquor, but at sea, where there is no labour that can 

 be called hard, at least in thcuavy or East Indiamen, 

 tea as a cooler or diluter is wholesome. Four ounces 

 of tea, value eightpence, and eight ounces of sugar, va- 

 lue twopence, will make sixteen pints of tea for six- 

 teen men, which is not three farthings per man. 

 Surely this served twice a-day is no great matter. 

 To make tea for one hundred men, fourteen or fif- 

 teen gallons, allowing for waste, fhould be put in the 

 opposite pot to the digesting pot ; they iliould have, 

 it drcfsed for them, else they v/ill neglect it ; at the 

 same time, as many, at their pleasure or command, 

 8s may wilh to have tea, fhould be allowed some- 

 how to have a little by purchase, against their wages 

 or otherwise. I have always observed, sailors drink^ 

 iug tea weans them from the thought of drirtkiug 

 strong liquors ; and with tea they are easily content- 

 ed; not so with whatever will intoxicate, be it what 

 it will. This has always been my remark ; tliere- 

 fure I always encouraged tea-drinking without their 

 knowing why. Coffee has the same good effect ; abo 



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