e, round and green. When they are ripe they are soft and fit to eat;
full of white pulp mixed thick with little black seeds, and there is no
separating one from the other till they are in your mouth; when you suck
in the white pulp and spit out the stones. They are tart, pleasant, and
very wholesome.

Petangos are a small red fruit that grow also on small trees and are as
big as cherries, but not so globular, having one flat side, and also 5 or
6 small protuberant ridges. It is a very pleasant tart fruit, and has a
pretty large flattish stone in the middle.

Petumbos are a yellow fruit (growing on a shrub like a vine) bigger than
cherries with a pretty large stone. These are sweet, but rough in the
mouth.

Mungaroos are a fruit as big as cherries, red on one side and white on
the other side: they are said to be full of small seeds, which are
commonly swallowed in eating them.

Muckishaws are said to be a fruit as big as crab-apples, growing on large
trees. They have also small seeds in the middle and are well tasted.

Ingwas are a fruit like the locust-fruit, 4 inches long and one broad.
They grow on high trees.

Otee is a fruit as big as a large coconut. It hath a husk on the outside,
and a large stone within, and is accounted a very fine fruit.

Musteran-de-ovas are a round fruit as big as large hazelnuts, covered
with thin brittle shells of a blackish colour: they have a small stone in
the middle, enclosed within a black pulpy substance, which is of a
pleasant taste. The outside shell is chewed with the fruit, and spit out
with the stone, when the pulp is sucked from them. The tree that bears
this fruit is tall, large, and very hard wood. I have not seen any of
these five last-named fruits, but had them thus described to me by an
Irish inhabitant of Bahia; though as to this last I am apt to believe I
may have both seen and eaten of them in Achin in Sumatra.

OF THE PALMBERRIES, PHYSICK-NUTS, MENDIBEES, ETC. AND THEIR ROOTS AND
HERBS, ETC.

Palm-berries (called here dendees) grow plentifully about Bahia; the
largest are as big as walnuts; they grow in bunches on the top of the
body of the tree, among the roots of the branches or leaves, as all
fruits of the palm kind do. These are the same kind of berries or nuts as
those they make the palm-oil with on the coast of guinea, where they
abound: and I was told that they make oil with them here also. They
sometimes roast and eat them; but when I had one roasted t