sweet and fragrant, of a rnellofl' inste. and nof srringy. There 

 arc more than ten sorts, such as ka-yit (ra. ayer), 



^ io-lun (m. dodul), k\vey-ng, (in. quini), ^ ^ 



sek-lam and ^ A-mc ; the names of the rftsi I did not 

 leara^ Some of them are half a foot in length : aome are 

 long and thiOj and others round and shorl;sonie are oblong 

 like the ^ nelumbium root, and others frngrant like the 

 ]^ papaya. It would be difficult to enumerate all tlieif qua- 

 lities, but the man^ga dodul h reckoned the best. 



^THF PLANTAIN. 



The plantain ia called )^ ^ p'he-sai^g ; some are up- 

 ward! of a foot in leugUj, and ottieri scarcely aa mdt long ; 

 eome are square like a paper parcel, others arc round like fowl's 

 egga ; some have red skins, and oUier^ white ■ eome have 

 Bmal! seedain tli^m, and others are short and dimmuiive, like 

 on.e'8 finger, having thin aking, and of a ysllow colour; these 

 are called golden ptantaina, and are very sweet and fragrant ; 

 of all plantain B these are the best. There are together twenty 

 or thirty dilferent kinds, all of which it would be difficuU to 

 enumerate. 



^ THE OaAJ^QE, 



Large and small oranges, together with pumclos, arc all 

 called by the natives ^*rW; (0 jU-lok), The Chinesef 

 however, who cannot forget their native country, call ihem 

 according to their original names. Thus there are ^ 

 fragrant oranges, ewcet oraugei, ^ sour oranges, 



^"^ 1^ fJJ ^'o^f oranges, more than a score of kinda, the 

 names of which I do not fully know. The four seasona are 

 alike luxuriant, while fiowera and fruita never cease ; which 

 suggested to me the following couplet : 



The scarlet hibiecua droops not nor dies, 

 And oranges many the garden supplies. 



