Volume 2
A voyage to China and the East Indies / by Peter Osbeck. Together with a voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen ... And an account of the Chinese husbandry, by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. To which are added a faunula and flora Sinensis.
- Peter Osbeck
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A voyage to China and the East Indies / by Peter Osbeck. Together with a voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen ... And an account of the Chinese husbandry, by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. To which are added a faunula and flora Sinensis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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!['might a rife from the water coming down the o o ‘hi!is. The inhabitants, who were here in their plantations, had purpofely flirred the water 'to make it muddy, that we might not go high¬ er up; for mifchievous people fometimes do them a good deal of mifchief by pulling up their potatoes, fugar-canes, &c. As I went on be¬ tween their uninclofed fields, I was alked by them, what countrymen we were ? and upon my anfwering, we are all of us Soy amen (for fo they call the Swedes]), 1 met with no further opposition; but a Ch'tnefe told me, that fome Englijhmen had pulled up feveral roots in his garden the day before : he then accompanied me, and offered me fome potatoes; but I was more thirfty than hungry, and the water was fo wretched, though it was become clear, that when it was ufed for tea, it ftained cotton with blue fpots. From this we concluded it was a mineral water; but we wanted the neccffary materials to try it. It became milky with fugar of lead. Ox a lis corniculata, by the Chinefe called Syn-mee, grew near the fpring, and in other low and fhady places. The corolla is as long again as the calyx : the capfule is pentagonal, oblong, with a point, and the whole plant is hairy* 14 j JlUELUA](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531500_0002_0441.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
