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The following plants and seeds were procured here and at Rio de Janeiro:

AT RIO DE JANEIRO

Coffee--both seed and plant

Cocoa-in the nut

Cotton-seed

Banana-plant

Oranges--various sorts, seed and plant

Lemon--seed and plant

Guava--seed

Tamarind

Prickly pear-plant, with the cochineal on it

Eugenia, or Pomme Rose--a plant bearing a fruit in shape like an apple,

and having the flavour and odour of a rose

Ipecacuana--three sorts

Jalap

AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

The Fig-tree

Bamboo

Spanish Reed

Sugar Cane

Vines of various sorts

Quince

Apple

Pear

Strawberry

Oak

Myrtle

To these must be added all sorts of grain, as Rice, Wheat, Barley,

Indian corn, etc. for seed, which were purchased to supply whatever

might be found damaged of these articles that were taken on board

in England.

During our stay here, the Ranger packet, Captain Buchanan, arrived after a passage of twelve weeks from Falmouth, bound to Bengal. She sailed again immediately. One officer alone of our fleet was fortunate enough to receive letters by her from his connexions in England.