<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cc4de0dc-46f7-4df9-8de0-dc46f70df92e" corresp="#a458837c-afe2-41ea-9883-7cafe221ea9e" type="editorialNote"><hi rendition="#u">bananes</hi> gegen <lb />mich <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/EX5JIDMV">Crawford I <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 4</bibl></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a458837c-afe2-41ea-9883-7cafe221ea9e" corresp="#cc4de0dc-46f7-4df9-8de0-dc46f70df92e" type="editorial"><quote>‚The banana,‘ says the Baron Humboldt, ‚is for all the inhabitants of the torrid zone what the cereal gramina, wheat, barley, and rye, are for the western Asia, and for Europe […]. In the two continents […] the fruit of the banana is one of the most interesting objects of cultivation for the subsistence of man.‘ This observation is extremely inaccurate, and very unlike M. Humboldt […].</quote></note>