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the higher regions ; the bean is an important article 

 of food; the sugar-cane, of which they reckon 

 eight varieties, they use only in its raw state ; coffee, 

 pepper, indigo, tobacco, anniseed, cinnamon-seed, 

 cubebs, &c., are cultivated, and collected for various 

 purposes in diet and medicine. Besides the cocoa- 

 nut, and other productions more generally knoAvn, 

 there are many trees growing spontaneously, of 

 which the seeds and kernels are used as food. 

 Wheat and potatoes, with almost every species of 

 European vegetable, are cultivated with success. 

 The true sago of Amboina and the Eastern Islands 

 is found only solitary in a few low and marshy 

 situations, and the preparation of it from the pith of 

 the tree is not known to the inhabitants of Java, 

 who make use of the leaves only for covering their 

 houses. 



No region of the earth is better supplied with 

 indigenous fruits; the mango, the plantain, the 

 guava, the pine-apple, the papow, the custard-apple, 

 the pomegranate, and almost every species which 

 grows within the tropics, are here found in the 

 greatest variety. The tamarind-tree is general ; 

 there are also many kinds of oranges, lemons, 

 citrons, and in particular the pumple-moos (the 

 shaddock of the "West Indies), with various others 

 not generally known in Europe, but well calculated 

 for the table. 



A great variety of ornamental trees and shrubs 

 have been enumerated which bloom in perpetual 



