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Some account of Batavia

of the rest of its tribe full of seeds, from whence it is calld Pissang Batu, or Pissang Bidjis  it has however no excellence to recommend it to the taste, or any other way, except its is, as the Malayers think good for the flux, 
8. Grapes are here to be had, but in no great perfection, they are however sufficiently dear, a bunch about the size of a fist costing a shilling or 18 pence, 
9. Tamarinds are prodigiously common, & as cheap; the people however either do not know how to put them up as the West Indians do, or do not practise it, but cure them with Salt, by which means they become a black mass, so disagreable to the sight & taste, that few Europeans chuse to meddle with them, 
10. Water melons are plentifull & good, as are also 11. Pumkins, which are certainly almost, or quite, the most usefull fruit which can be carried to

 

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