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Some account of Batavia

gardens, & selling fruits, & flowers; Betele &Arec  calld here Siri &​​​​​​​ Pinang, is all grown by them, of which an immense quatity is chewd by Portugese, chinese & Slams  slaves & free men, the lime that they use here is however slackd, by which means their teeth are not eat up in the same manner as the Savoo peoples, who use it unslackd, they mix with it also a substance calld Gambir, which is brought from the Continent of India, & the better sort of women use with their chew many sorts of perfumes, as cardamoms &c &c. to give the breath an agreable smell, many also get a livelihood by fishing & carrying goods upon the water &c. &c, some however there are who are very rich & live splendidly in their own way, which consists almost intirely in a number of Slaves

[Margin note] foode
In the article of food, no people can be more Abstemious than they are, Boild rice is of Rich as well as poor the principal part of the subsistence, this with a small proportion of fish  Buffaloe or fowl, & sometimes dryd fish & dry shrimps brought here from china, is the cheif of their food, every thing however must be
 

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