57 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



children, this poor man had thought proper to 

 fplicit payment of what was due to him : in 

 vain did lie reprefent that the fo much boafted 

 honour of having the charge of the education of 

 the Governors children, was not of itfelf enough 

 for the father of a family ; he could obtain no- 

 thing more. 



I employed a part of the day of the ioth in 

 vifiting feveral gardens, where, among the plants 

 with which they were embellifhcd, I remarked 

 the Chinefe buxus, murraya exotica, which formed 

 very pretty walks, the jujl'ic'ui varifgeta, and the 

 crolon vanegatum, fo remarkable for the beauty 

 of ihcir flowers and foliage. 



The henne (laiv/bhia biennis), called by fome 

 naturalifts boungtiia laca, is employed, as in Alia, 

 to die certain parts of the body, and particu- 

 larly the extremity of the fingers : the Chinefe 

 are the people who make molt ufe of it. 



I loon found m) (elf near a houfe, round theedges 

 of the roof of which, and from the neighbouring 

 trei s, were fufpeaded a great numbcrof cocoa-nuts. 

 r J he owner of this hut told me, at the fame time 

 ibewing me his numerous family,, that he was 

 preparing to make a large plantation of cocoa- 

 moli of thefe aima -nuts had already 

 iproutcd, and he did not mean to put them into 

 ground until the young plants had attained 

 about a demi-meter in height. He affurcd me 



that 



