o prove it I
did not like it.

Physick-nuts, as our seamen called them, are called here pineon; and
agnus castus is called here carrepat: these both grow here: so do
mendibees, a fruit like physick-nuts. They scorch them in a pan over the
fire before they eat them.

Here are also great plenty of cabbage-trees, and other fruits, which I
did not get information about and which I had not the opportunity of
seeing; because this was not the season, it being our spring, and
consequently their autumn, when their best fruits were gone, though some
were left. However I saw abundance of wild berries in the woods and
fields, but I could not learn their names or nature.

They have withal good plenty of ground fruit, as callavances, pineapples,
pumpkins, watermelons, musk-melons, cucumbers, and roots; as yams,
potatoes, cassava, etc. Garden herbs also good store; as cabbages,
turnips, onions, leeks, and abundance of other salading, and for the pot.
Drugs of several sorts, namely sassafras, snake-root, etc. Beside the
woods I mentioned for dyeing and other uses as fustick, speckled-wood,
etc.

I brought home with me from hence a good number of plants, dried between
the leaves of books; of some of the choicest of which that are not
spoiled I may give a specimen at the end of the book.

OF THEIR WILDFOWL, MACAWS, PARROTS, ETC.

Here are said to be great plenty and variety of wildfowl, namely yemmas,
macaws (which are called here jackoos, and are a larger sort of parrot,
and scarcer) parrots, parakeets, flamingos, carrion-crows,
chattering-crows, cockrecoes, bill-birds finely painted, corresoes,
doves, pigeons, jenetees, clocking-hens, crab-catchers, galdens,
currecoos, muscovy ducks, common ducks, widgeons, teal, curlews,
men-of-war birds, boobies, noddies, pelicans, etc.

THE YEMMA, CARRION-CROW AND CHATTERING-CROW, BILL-BIRD, CURRESO,
TURTLEDOVE AND WILD PIGEONS; THE JENETEE,

The yemma is bigger than a swan, grey-feathered, with a long thick
sharp-pointed bill.

The carrion-crow and chattering-crows are called here mackeraws, and are
like those I described in the West Indies. The bill of the
chattering-crow is black, and the upper bill is round, bending downwards
like a hawk's bill, rising up in a ridge almost semi-circular, and very
sharp, both at the ridge or convexity, and at the point or extremity: the
lower bill is flat and shuts even with it. I was told by a Portuguese
here that their negro wenches make love potion