70 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA 



Madepolam is a big- place, having* manufactories, especially 

 fine cottons are made here. The streets are irregular and nar- 

 row, but the houses better than the usual ones in these countries, 

 they are bigg-er and many of them are built of wood, like those 

 in Masulipatam. The mud-houses were covered with a kind of 

 pipe clay and look ashy grey and they have some white stripes 

 running all round, consisting of small triangular dots arranged in 

 rows. 



The people are even merrier and more polite than I had 

 found them in Masulipatam, their rooms are clean and they sleep 

 small beds, a thing rarely seen near Madras. 



The Dutch used to have a manufactory here as well, but they 

 have left it, and the building is a ruin. 



The manufactory which is now in the possession of the Eng- 

 lish as well as the whole country, used to belong- to the French. 

 The factory consists of three substantial houses, built in European 

 style and besides there are some warehouses to store the goods 

 in manufactured here. 



These houses lie at the eastern extremity of the tower, close 

 to the rather high bank of a big arm of the Godaveri, in a very 

 pleasant part of the country. 



In the afternoon I looked round for some plants, and found 

 a new species of the family of Boerhaavia. It had indeed five 

 stamens but everything- else showed that it belonged to this fam- 

 ily ; therefore I was not willing to separate it from this class. 

 It has opposite heart shaped leaves, which are covered with 

 white soft shiny hair ; carissa arborea had beautiful blue fruit as 

 large as a plum, and they were in such abundance that it looked 

 more blue than green. There is a very g-ood red jelly made 

 from the juice of this fruit. 



I saw here the Coesalpinia Nuga forthe first time, it is an 

 excellent shrub for hedging- purposes where the country is flat. 

 There was a species of Excoecaria with long pointed leaves very 

 shiny above but they were not as juicy as those of the ordinary 

 kind. There was a Monoica bearing the male spikes on the same 

 tree, the fruit were generally as big as a lemon, the tree was 

 scarcely two metres high. I obtained some beautiful ripe seed 

 of it. 



20. — ^The Factors took us to a garden belonging the Bem 

 Ross or Raja ; it laj" some miles inland. The whole way thither 



