342 DESCRIPTION OF SAVU CHAP. XV 
palms that I have seen—requires a poetical imagination to 
describe, and a mind not unacquainted with such sights to 
conceive. 
The productions of this island are buffaloes, sheep, hogs, 
fowls, horses, asses, maize, guinea corn, rice, calevances, limes, 
oranges, mangroves, plantains, water-melons, tamarinds, 
sweet sops (Annona), blimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi), besides 
cocoanuts and fan-palms, which last are in sufficient quantity, 
should all other crops fail, to support the whole island, 
people, stock, and all, who have at times been obliged to 
live upon its sugar, syrup, and wines for some months. We 
saw also a small quantity of European garden herbs, as 
celery, marjoram, fennel, and garlic, and one single sugar- 
cane. Besides these necessaries, it has for the supply of 
luxury betel and areca, tobacco, cotton, indigo, and a little 
cinnamon, only planted for curiosity, said Mr. Lange ; indeed, 
I almost doubt whether or not it was genuine cinnamon, as 
the Dutch have been always so careful not to trust any 
spices out of their proper islands. Besides these were prob- 
ably other things which we had not an opportunity of see- 
ing, and which Mr. Lange forgot or did not choose to 
mention. 
All their produce is in amazing abundance, so we judged 
at least from the plantations we saw, though this year every 
crop had failed for want of rain. Most of them are well 
known to Europeans: I shall, however, spend a little ink in 
describing such only as are not, or as differ at all in appear- 
ance from those commonly known. To begin then with 
buffaloes, of which they have got good store; these beasts 
differ from our cattle in Europe in their ears, which are 
considerably larger, in their skins, which are almost without 
hair, and in their horns, which, instead of bending forwards 
as ours do, bend directly backwards, and also in their total 
want of dewlaps. We saw some of these as big as well- 
sized European oxen, and some there must be much larger; 
so at least I was led to believe by a pair of horns which 
I measured: they were from tip to tip 3 feet 94 inches, 
across their widest diameter 4 feet 14 inch; the whole 
