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Some account of Batavia

in Sugar as Kimkit, Boa Atap, &c &c. but these require to be that way prepard before they are at all eatable.

Batavia consumes a quantity of fruits hardly to be beleivd, the greatest part of which before they are sold are over ripe or otherwise bad, nor can a stranger easily get any that are good, unless he goes to a street cald Passar Pissang,
[Margin note] Town
which lies North from the great church & very near it, here live none but Chinese, who sell fruit, they are in general supplied from Gentlemens gardens in the neighbourhood of the town, & consequently have the best, & always fresh, for this excellence of their goods however they are well paid, for they will not take less for any kind than 3 or 4 times as much as the market price, nor did we ever grudge to give it, as their fruit was always ten times better than any in the market, the cheif supplies of Batavia, Come from a pretty considerable distance, where great quantities of land are cultivated merely for the

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