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Some account of Batavia
& this especialy from its want of smell & modest white array, seems not at all desirous of admirers, but when night comes, its fragrance is diffusd around,& attracts the attention as well as gains the admiration of every passer by,
7. Bonga Tanjong is shapd quite like a star of 7 or 8 rays, about 1/2 an inch in diameter, it is of a yellowish colour, & like its fellows a modest agreable smell, but its cheif use is contrasting the Mulatti, on the wreaths which the ladies here wear in their hair, & this it does very prettily.
Besides these, there are in private gardens many other sweet flowers, which are not in sufficient plenty to be brought to market, as Cape Jasmine, several sorts of Arabian Jasmine, tho none so sweet as the Common &c. &c. they have also a mixture of several of these flowers & leaves of a plant Calld Pandang (Pandanus ) choppd small with which they fill their hair & cloths &c., but their great Luxury is strewing their beds full of this mixture and flowers, so that you sleep in the midst of perfumes, a luxury scarce to be expressd nor at all conceivd in Europe, where stewing under 3 or 4 blankets; even fragrant odours cannot enjoy that liberty they do in India, under none or