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455.
Some account of Batavia

[Margin note]  Wild fowl
Wild Fowl in General is here scarce, I saw during my stay one wild duck in the feilds, but never one to be sold, Snipes however of 2 kinds, one exactly the same as those in Europe, & a kind of Thrushes are plentifully sold every day by the Portugese, who for I know not what reason seem to monopolize all the wild game

[Margin note]  Vegitables
Nor is the earth less fruitfull of vegetables than she is of animals, Rice, which every body knows is to the inhabitants of these countreys the Common corn, which serves instead of Bread, is very plentifull, one kind of it is planted here & in many of the Eastern Islands, which in the western parts of India is totaly unknown, it is calld by the Natives Paddy Gunang,
[Margin note]   paddy is Rice
that is mountain rice, this, contrary to the other sort, which must be under water three parts of the time of its growth; is planted upon the sides of hills, where no water but rain can possibly come, they take however the advantage of planting it in the beginning of the rainy

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