in, pretty long, and bigger near
the stem than at the other end, growing tapering. The rind is smooth and
thin, of a red and yellow colour. The seed of this fruit grows at the end
of it; it is of an olive colour shaped like a bean, and about the same
bigness, but not altogether so flat. The tree is as big as an apple-tree,
with branches not thick, yet spreading off. The boughs are gross, the
leaves broad and round, and in substance pretty thick. This fruit is soft
and spongy when ripe, and so full of juice that in biting it the juice
will run out on both sides of one's mouth. It is very pleasant, and
gratefully rough on the tongue; and is accounted a very wholesome fruit.
This grows both in the East and West Indies, where I have seen and eaten
of it.

The jennipah or jennipapah is a sort of fruit of the calabash or gourd
kind. It is about the bigness of a duck-egg, and somewhat of an oval
shape; and is of a grey colour. The shell is not altogether so thick nor
hard as a calabash: it is full of whitish pulp mixed with small flat
seeds; and both pulp and seeds must be taken into the mouth, where
sucking out the pulp you spit out seeds. It is of a sharp and pleasing
taste, and is very innocent. The tree that bears it is much like an ash,
straight-bodied, and of a good height; clean from limbs till near the
top, where there branches forth a small head. The rind is of a pale grey,
and so is the fruit. We used of this tree to make helves or handles for
axes (for which it is very proper) in the Bay of Campeachy; where I have
seen of them, and nowhere else but here.

OF THEIR PECULIAR FRUITS, ARISAHS, MERICASAHS, PETANGOS, PETUMBOS,
MUNGAROOS, MUCKISHAWS, INGWAS, OTEES, AND MUSTERAN DE OVAS.

Besides these here are many sorts of fruits which I have not met with
anywhere but here; as arisahs, mericasahs, petangos, etc. Arisahs are an
excellent fruit, not much bigger than a large cherry; shaped like a
catherine-pear, being small at the stem, and swelling bigger towards the
end. They are of a greenish colour, and have small seeds as big as
mustard seeds; they are somewhat tart, yet pleasant, and very wholesome,
and may be eaten by sick people.

Mericasahs are an excellent fruit, of which there are 2 sorts; one
growing on a small tree or shrub, which is counted the best; the other
growing on a kind of shrub like a vine, which they plant about arbors to
make a shade, having many broad leaves. The fruit is as big as a small
orang