, which is but half an Inch
thick, is like that of a Melon, but of a sweet faintish Taste; but it
makes a pretty good Confection, of a fine green Colour.

There is another kind of _Papaw_-Tree, whose Fruit is as large as a
Melon, and better tasted than the former.

REMARK V.

The _Banane_ is a sort of Plant, whose Root is a great round Bulb, from
whence proceeds a Trunk, green and smooth, six Feet high, as thick as
one's Thigh, and without any Leaf. On the top of it grow about twenty
Leaves, about a Foot and a half broad, and about five Feet long; but so
tender, that the Wind tears them from the Middle to the Sides, into
Slangs like Ribbons: From the Center of these Leaves grows a second
Trunk, more firm than the rest of the Plant: upon this grows a Cluster
of about forty or fifty _Bananes_, sometimes more, sometimes less. A
_Banane_ is a Fruit as thick as one's Arm, about a Foot long, and a
little crooked. They gather this Cluster green, and hang it up in the
Ceiling; and as the _Bananes_ grow yellow, or mellow, they gather them.
When this Cluster is taken away, the Plant withers, or they cut it down
at the Root; but for one Trunk lost, the Root sends forth five or six
more.

Besides these _Bananes_, there is a Fruit call'd _Banane-Figs_; but the
Plants that produce them are very little different: The Figs are much
less than the _Bananes_, being but four or five Inches long. The Fig is
more delicious, but the _Banane_ is thought to be more wholesome, and
the Pulp more solid. They roast them upon a Grid-Iron, or bake them in
an Oven, they eat them with Sugar and the Juice of an Orange. The
_Banane_ done in a Stew-Pan in its own Juice, with Sugar and a little
Cinnamon, is excellent.

REMARK VI.

_Manioc_ is a Shrub very crooked, and full of Knots, its Wood is tender
and brittle, and the Branches are easily broke off into Slips: There are
several and different Colours, some more forward and fruitful than
others. Commonly they are pluck'd up in a Year or thereabouts; and there
is found at every one, several plump Roots, without any sensible Fibres,
more or less thick, according to the Kind and the Goodness of the Soil.
These Roots are wash'd in a good deal of Water, to free them from the
Earth; and after they are scraped with a Knife like wild Turnips, they
_grate_ them; that is to say, they rub them hard with great Copper
Graters, which the _French_ call _Grages_, just as they do Quinces to
get out the Juice.