Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0560
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Some account of Batavia
Season by which means they reap it in the Beginning of the dry, how far this kind of rice might be useful in our West Indian Islands, where they grow no bread corn at all, I leave to the judgement of those who know their respective interests; & whether the Cassava or Manihot, their substitute for bread, is not as wholesome, & cheaper, than any thing else which could be introducd among them, besides rice they grow also Indian corn or Mayz, which they gather when young, & toast in the Ear, they have also vast variety of Kidney beans & Lentils, which they call Cadjang, & make a great part of the food of the common people, they have also Millet, Yams, both wet & dry, sweet Potatoes, & some European potatoes not to be despisd, but dear, their Gardens produce Cabbage, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Radishes, China white Radishes which boil almost as well as Turnips, carrots, parsley, Selery Pidgeon pease (Cytissus Cajan) Kidney beans of two sorts (Dolichos chinensis & Lignosus) Egg plant (solanum Melongena) which eats delicately broild with pepper & salt, a kind of greens much