Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0564
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Some account of Batavia
Besides these, they have several fruits which the natives only eat, as Kellor Guilindines Moringa Succum of two or three kinds,
[Margin note] Bread fruit
the same as is calld bread fruit in the South Seas, all the kinds here however, are so incomparably inferior to the South Sea ones, that was it not for the great similitude of the outward apearance of both tree & fruit, they would scarce deserve that name, Bilïnju (Gnetum Gnemon) Boa Bune &c, &c. all which I shall pass over in silence, as not deserving to be mentiond to any but hungry people, & pass to those of a more gratefull flavour, among the first of which the pine apple Calld here Nanas, will always appear, these are here very large, & so plentifull, that in cheap times I have been told that a man who buys them at the first hand, may get them for a farthing apeice, when we were there, we could get without much hagling, two or three for two pence halfpenny at the common fruit shops, in quality they are certainly good, & well flavourd, as good,