AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1585. 



gardens and orchards well replenished with divers sorts 

 of fruites, herbes and trees, as lymmons, orenges, sugar- 

 canes, cochars or cochos nuts, plantans, potato-rootes, 

 cucumbers, small and round onions, garlicke, and some 

 other things not now remembered, amongst which the 

 cochos nuts, and plantans are very pleasant fruites, the 

 saide cochos hath a hard shell and a greene huske over 

 it, as hath our walnut, but it farre exceedeth in great- 

 nesse, for this cochos in his greene huske is bigger 

 than any mans two fistes: of the hard shell many 

 drinking cups are made here in England, and set in 

 silver as 1 have often seene. 



Next within this hard shell is a white rine resembling 

 in shewe very much even as any thing may do, to the 

 white of an cggt when it is hard boyled. And within 

 this white of the nut lyeth a water, which is whitish 

 and very cleere, to the quantitie of halfe a pynt or 

 thereaboutes, which water and white rine before spoken 

 of, are both of a very coole fresh tast, and as pleasing 

 as any thing may be. I have heard some hold opinion, 

 that it is very restorative. 



The plantan groweth in cods, somewhat like to beanes, 

 but is bigger and longer, and much more thicke together 

 on the stalke, and when it waxeth ripe, the meate which 

 filleth the rine of the cod becommeth yellow, and is 

 exceeding sweet and pleasant. 



In this time of our being there hapned to come a 

 Portugall to the Westerne fort, with a flag of truce, to 

 whom Captaine Sampson was sent with Captaine Goring, 

 who comming to the said messenger, he first asked them 

 what nation they were, they answered Englishmen, hee 

 then required to knowe if warres were betweene England 

 and Spaine, to which they answered that they knew not, 

 but if he would goe to their Generall he could best 

 resolve him of such particulars, and for his assurance 

 of passage and repassage, these Captaines made offer to 

 ingage their credits, which he refused for that he was 

 not sent from his Governor. Then they told him, if 



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