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and the Pijfang Amhou : all thefe have a pleafant vinous tafte, 
and the relt are ufeful in different ways j fome are fried in 
batl^r, and others are boiled and eaten as bread. There is 
one which deferves the particular notice of the botanift, be- 
caufe contrary to the nature of its tribe, it is full of feeds, and 
is therefore called Pijfang Batu, or Pijfang Bidjie ; it has how- 
ever no excellence to recommend it to the tafte, but the Ma- 
lays-ufe it as a remedy for the flux. 
8. Grapes. Thefe are not in great perfedlion, but they are 
very dear ; for we could not buy a moderate hunch for lcfs 
than a Ihilling or eighteen pence. 
9. Tamarinds. Thefe are in great plenty, and very cheap : 
The people however do not put them up in the manner prac- 
tifed by the Weft-Indians,. but cure them with fait, by which 
means they become a black mafs, fo difagreeable to the fight 
and tafte, that few Europeans chufe to meddle with them. 
10. Watermelons. Thefe are in great plenty, and very 
good. 
1 1. Pumpkins. Thefe are beyond comparifon the moft ufe- 
ful fruit that can be carried to fea ; for they will keep without 
any care feveral months, and with fugar and lemon juice, make 
a pye that can fcarcely be diftinguilhed from one made of the 
beft apples ; and with pepper and fait, they are a fubftitute 
for turneps not to be defpifed. 
12. Papaws. This fruit when it is ripe is full of feeds, and 
almoft without flavour ; but if when it is green it is pared, and 
the core taken out, it is better than the beft turnep. 
13. Guava. This fruit is much commended by the inha- 
bitants of our iflands in the Weft Indies, who probably have a 
better fort than we met with here, where the fmell of them 
was fo difagreeably ftrong that it made fome of us fick ; thole 
who tailed them, faid, that the flavour was equally rank. 
14. Sweet fop. Th Q Annona fquammofa of Linaeus. This 
is alfo a Weft Indian fruit ; it connfts only of a mafs of large 
kernels, from which a fmall proportion of pulp may be 
fucked, which is very fweet, but has little flavour. 
15. Cuftard apple. The Annona reticulata ofLinasus. The 
quality of this fruit is well expreffed by its Englilh name, 
which it acquired in the Weft Indies ; for it is as like a cuf- 
- tard, and a good one too, as can be imagined. 
i 5 . The calhew apple. This is feldom eaten on account 
©fits aftringency. The nut that grows upon the top of it is 
well known in Europe. 
17. The cocoa-nut. This is alfo well known in Europe : 
there are feveral forts, but the beft of thofe we found here is 
called Calappi Edjou, and is eafily known by the rednefs of 
the flelh between the Ikin and the Ihell. 
18. Mangoftan. The GarcinidMangoJlana of Linteus. This 
fruit 
