whitish bag or skin which encloses the cotton. When the cotton-apple
is ripe the outer thick green shell splits itself into 5 equal parts from
stem to tail and drops off, leaving the cotton hanging upon the stem,
only pent up in its fine bag. A day or two afterwards the cotton swells
by the heat of the sun, breaks the bag and bursts out, as big as a man's
head: and then as the wind blows it is by degrees driven away, a little
at a time, out of the bag that still hangs upon the stem, and is
scattered about the fields; the bag soon following the cotton, and the
stem the bag. Here is also a little of the right West India cotton-shrub:
but none of the cotton is exported, nor do they make much cloth of it.

THE BRAZILIAN FRUITS, ORANGES, ETC.

This country produces great variety of fine fruits, as very good oranges
of 3 or 4 sorts (especially one sort of china oranges) limes in
abundance, pomegranates, pomecitrons, plantains, bananas, right coconuts,
guavas, coco-plums (called here munsheroos) wild grapes, such as I have
described, beside such grapes as grow in Europe. Here are also hog-plums,
custard-apples, soursops, cashews, papaws (called here mamoons) jennipahs
(called here jennipapahs) manchineel-apples and mangoes. Mangoes are yet
but rare here: I saw none of them but in the Jesuits' garden, which has a
great many fine fruits, and some cinnamon-trees. These, both of them,
were first brought from the East Indies, and they thrive here very well:
so do pumplemouses, brought also from thence; and both china and seville
oranges are here very plentiful as well as good.

OF THE SOURSOPS, CASHEWS AND JENNIPAHS.

The soursop (as we call it) is a large fruit as big as a man's head, of a
long or oval shape, and of a green colour; but one side is yellowish when
ripe. The outside rind or coat is pretty thick, and very rough, with
small sharp knobs; the inside is full of spongy pulp, within which also
are many black seeds or kernels, in shape and bigness like a
pumpkin-seed. The pulp is very juicy, of a pleasant taste, and wholesome.
You suck the juice out of the pulp, and so spit it out. The tree or shrub
that bears this fruit grows about 10 or 12 foot high, with a small short
body; the branches growing pretty straight up; for I did never see any of
them spread abroad. The twigs are slender and tough; and so is the stem
of the fruit. This fruit grows also both in the East and West Indies.

The cashew is a fruit as big as a pipp