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Ixxil | The Introduction. 
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In time of Sugar-making, two Quarts of clear Moloffes is thought 
better than the Sugar. 
Beyond Guanaboa in the Mountains, were feveral Cacao-Walks, or 
Plantations in the time of the Spaniards, but now they are ruined, 
only fome few Cacao-Trees ftand here and there in the Woods, as 
there is of Oranges, ¢7c. the Wood about them is likewife here 
grown fince the Spaniards left the Ifland, as high as any of the Ifland, 
being feventy Foot high of Timber, 
I went to Liguanee, and crofled from Pa/fage- Fort, the Arm of the 
Sea which comes in by Port-Royal. 
The greateft part of the Shore of this Ifland, and particularly of 
this Bay, are full of a Tree call'd Mangrove, of which I fhall fpeak 
hereafter. In the mean time, I think fit only to take notice that 
Oifters grow or ftick to thefe Trees, not upon them like Fruit, as is 
vulgarly conceived, but only to fo much of the Root of the Mangrove- 
Tree, as is under Water : the Tree-Oitters {tick and faften themfelves, 
and afterwards feveral of them ftick together, the lower down they 
are the bigger ; fo that at low Water the beft is taken. They caufe 
the Flux and Fevers when eat in excefs, and tafte fomewhat like 
ours. When through any Accident thefe Oifters die, they corrupt, 
ftink, and infeét the Air and Wind, and are noifom to the places 
about them, on this account the Land-Winds are thought to bring 
Port-Royal no good Air. 
Sloops may, if they know the Paflage or Canal, go to Paffage- 
Fort from Port-Royal, otherwife they cannot for the Shoals. Men of- 
War Birds, fo call’d, appear in this Bay, they fly like Kites, look 
black, are very large-wingd in proportion to the Body, they fight 
with Sea-Gulls, ( which are’to-be'found -here, and are like ours,) for 
their Prey. SEES 8 SRE tie) 
Pelicans fifh in this Bay, likewife in blowing Weather, when 
they cannot fifh abroad, and in the calm Mornings they dive after 
their Prey. Spanifh Mackarel are taken in this Bay in plenty. They 
are like ours, only made like a Boneto. I here obferved a {mall Shoal 
of {mall Fifhes to leap out of the Water, being purfued by greater 
Fifhes. 
The whole Shoals between Port-Royal and Paffage-Fort are cover'd © 
with Coral of feveral forts, and Alga anguftifolia Vitrariorum or Sea~ 
Grafs. There are alfo Star-Fifhes of feveral forts, large and five- 
pointed, as well as fmall, and feveral forts of the Echinus Marinus. Al- 
legators are often drawn on Shoar in the Senne-Nets by the Fifher-men, 
whole Nets are generally broken by them. Thefe Allegators are fo 
call'd from the word Alagarta, in Spanifh, fignifying a Lizard, of which 
this is an amphibious fort. When I was in Jamaica, there was one 
of 
