A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.

Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.

Now, however, the editorial writer has a new weapon in hu arsenal.

‘European fruit, such as apples, pears [hazel?]-nuts, and the like one will indeed not find here in India ..... But on the other hand one has other delicious fruit, not seen in Europe either, like pineapples, banana, pumelo, mangos, oranges, Chinese apples [i.e. oranges], lemons, citrusses, water melons, cashews, coconuts and more of the like, all of which being excellently good of taste.’[…]‘rice, wheat, barley kayang, ginger, sugar, masquinades: multifarious trees and fruits lemons, [citrusses,] oranges, guayavas, pisang, (citrusses, pummel-os, water-)melons, (pumpkins,) pineapples, China root, katjang, aubergines, sweet potatoes, ubes, (warmoes?), cabbage, beet’—words in square brackets are only in the German version, those in parentheses only in the Dutch.