Nutmeg

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Nutmegs are listed among the products of Java by Ma Huan. Mills says in his note:

“Nutmegs (seeds of Myristica fragrans) would have come from Banda and the Moluccas (Schrieke, pt. 1, p. 21); and see Hirth and Rockhill, pp. 210-11; Wheatley, ‘Commodities’, p. 100.”

- J. V. G. Mills, trans., ed., Ma Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores [1433], Hakluyt Society Extra Series 42 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1970), "The Country of Chao-wa", p. 91, n. 8