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7. Bananes. Of these also there am innumerable sorts, but three only are good; the Pissang Mas, the Pissang Radja, and the Pissang Ambou: all these have a pleasant vinous taste, and the rest are useful in different ways; some are fried in batter and others are boiled and eaten as bread. There is one which deserves the particular notice of the botanist, because, contrary to the nature of its tribe, it is full of seeds, and is therefore called, Pissang Batu, or Pissang Bidjie; it has however no excellence to recommend it to the taste, but the Malays use it as a remedy, for the flux.
8. Grapes. These are not in great perfection, but they are very dear; for we could not buy a moderate bunch for less than a shilling or eighteen pence.
9. Tamarinds. These are in great plenty, and very cheap: the people however do not put them up in the manner practised by the West Indians, but cure them with salt, by which, means they become a black mass, so disagreeable to the sight and taste, that few Europeans, chuse to meddle with them.
10. Water melons. These are in great plenty, and very good.
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© Derived from Vols. II-III of the London 1773 edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 735, 2004
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