burrough in theſe ſandy Soils like Rabbets, and are as ſhy.
The Iſland is a pleaſant Intermixture of Hill and Valley; the Hills ſpread with Palms, Coco-Nuts, and Cotton-Trees, with Numbers of Monkeys and Parrots among them; the Valleys with fruitful Plantations of Yamms, Kulalu, Papas, Variety of Sallating, Ananas, or Pine-Apples, Guavas, Plantanes, Bonanas, Manyocos, and Indian Corn; with Fowls, Guinea Hens, Muſcovy Ducks, Goats, Hogs, Turkies, and wild Beefs, with each a little Village of Negroes, who, under the Direction of their ſeveral Maſters, manage the Cultivation, and exchange or ſell them for Money, much after the ſame Rates with the People of St. Thome.
I ſhall run a Deſcription of the Vegetables, with their Properties, not only becauſe they are the Produce of this Iſland, but moſt of them of Africa in general.
The Palm-Trees are numerous on the Shores of Africa, and may be reckoned the firſt of their natural Curioſities, in that they afford them Meat, Drink and Cloathing; they grow very ſtraight to 40 and 50 Foot high, and at the top (only) have 3 or 4 Circles of Branches, that ſpread and make a capacious Umbrella. The Trunk is very rough with Knobs, either Excreſcencies, or the Healings of thoſe Branches that were lopped off to forward the Growth of the Tree, and make it anſwer better in its Fruit. The Branches are ſtrongly tied together with a Cortex, which may be unravelled to a conſiderable Length and Breadth; the inward Lamella of this Cortex, I know are wove like a Cloath at Benin, and afterwards died and worn: Under the Branches, and cloſe to the Body of the Tree, hang the Nuts, thirty Bunches perhaps on a Tree, and each of thirty Pound Weight, with prickly Films from between them, not unreſemb-
