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| 1. | Pine apple | Bromelia Ananas |
| 2. | Sweet Oranges | Citrus Aurant Sinens |
| 3. | Pumplmoes | Citrus Decumanus |
| 4. | Lemon | Citrus medica Limon |
| 5. | Lime | Citrus |
| 6. | Mango | Mangifera indica |
| 7. | Bananes | Musa |
| 8. | Grapes | Vitis vinifera |
| 9. | Tamarinds | Tamarindus indica |
| 10. | Water melons | Cucurbita Citrullus |
| 11. | Pumkins | Cucurbita Pepo |
in general so much cryd up by those who have eat of them, and so much prefer’d to our European ones, that I shall give a full list of all the sorts which were in Season during our stay, and afterwards my judgement of Each, which I must confess is not so much in their favour as that of the generality of Europeans after their return home, tho while here I did not find that they were more fond of them or spoke more in their praise when compard with European fruits than I did.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW Transcription of Banks's Journal page (vol. 2) 458, February 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
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