For dessert there is cheese, with fruit; such as pine- apples, long-yen, mangoes, and lytchi.

The Chinese affirm that the latter is the finest fruit in the whole world.

It is about the size of a nut, with a brown verrucous outside; the edible part is white and tender, and the kernel black.

Long-yen is somewhat smaller, but is also white and tender, though the taste is rather watery.
Neither of these fruits struck me as very good.

I do not think the pine-apples are so sweet, or possessed of that aromatic fragrance which distinguishes those raised in our European greenhouses, although they are much larger.
Portuguese wines and English beer are the usual drinks--ice, broken into small pieces, and covered up with a cloth, is offered with each.