resembling chestnuts, the fruit is quite worthless as a vegetable. Now that steam
and Ward's cases render the transport of young plants so easy, it is much to be
wished that the best varieties of this unequalled vegetable should be introduced
into our West India islands, and largely propagated there. As the fruit will keep
some time after being gathered, we might then be able to obtain this tropical
luxury in Covent Garden Market.
Although the few months I at various times spent in Amboyna were not
altogether very profitable to me in the way of collections, it will always remain
as a bright spot in the review of my Eastern travels, since it was there that I first
made the acquaintance of those glorious birds and insects which render the
Moluccas classic ground in the eyes of the naturalist, and characterise its fauna
as one of the most remarkable and beautiful upon the globe. On the 20th of
February I finally quitted Amboyna for Ceram and Waigiou, leaving Charles
Allen to go by a Government boat to Wahai on the north coast of Ceram, and
thence to the unexplored island of Mysol.
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