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Tood; but'-this lalF$'which has the flavour of muik, is c'H a p.
'accounted 'by Far thé moït d e lic a te .Por a fnote perfect , X1^ ‘ ,
-idea, however, than ] am Capable of giving by defcfip-
%iopf} I refer the ciirious to the anrk&ed^plate; where A
*is the plantain-tree with iis<fru it; B the 'yèung flioots
ThafÖéeeéd i t ; 'C the fruit^ffits^gtéérf tegument; D the
Tanvè, ctvt through the middlé; a n d ^ ttfé ffmt!Üallèd ba~
wahd+'m full maturity/'* to .Surinam the1 firft iV'knbwn
■by the name of banana^. and’'thé ’fecönd^g^s? by that'of
tyaeoobdi >.
: I nö\% obtaining my friend Medl&Ps coftcui-Tehöé,1 took
‘a -trip on-'the'iSth to Paramaribo*,' where I fbund:toy boy
bathing in Madeira'wine ahd water ff» ' Whilè'hïs- riibthjet
was happ% arid peïfeétly recovered. Having ièen them
Wèll-i and- pfefentèd Joanna with a gold'nled^i, ; that my
fatter h ^ given'my mother on thè daV Of rfty birth, alfo
thanked Mrs. Lolkens for her very great - kindnêifs, I
immediately returned to the Hope, \Vhefe' f arrived on
the 'aadi-
> The poor negro whom I had febt before me with a
fetter had been lefs fortunate than I- was, having his'
canoe overfet in the middle of the river Surinam, by the
roughnefs of the water. With gfëat addfë'fs, h'mvévèr,
he kept himfelf in an ere£t pofture (for this man could
not fwim), and by the buoyancy and refiftancfe of the bokt
* This, however uncommon it may, amongft which clafs was the hofpitablé
appear to an Európéan,is often pradtifèd Mrs. Lölkehs, ’ who genèroufly prefentcd
in Surinam, by-fuph as can; afiprd Joanna with the, wine. '
againft