Evidence: | 'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so large that a man cannot easily lift one of them: the Malays told me that at Madura they were so large that two men could but carry one of them; at Batavia, however, they never exceed the size of a large melon, which in shape they resemble, but are coated over with angular spines like the shootings of some crystals: they are, however, soft, and do not at all prick any one who handles them.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 25 Dec 1770 | ||||||||||
Country: | At sea off Suva | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: On board HMS Endeavour | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Reader: | Joseph Banks |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Feb 1743 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Naturalist |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | At sea off Suva |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Georg Eberhard Rumphius |
Title: | Herbrium Aboinensis |
Genre: | Natural history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 10133 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Banks | |
Editor: | Joseph Hooker | |
Title: | Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. P.R.S. during Captain Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1896 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 395 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. P.R.S. during Captain Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 395, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10133, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Date of birth is given as 2 February 1743 (O. S.) which has been converted to the modern date. The fruit "Nanca" (Sitodium cauliflorum) is being described. |
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