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cane, which the inhabitants eat raw ; a root of the 

 Salop kind, called by the inhabitants Pea ; a plant 

 called Ethee, of which the root only is eaten ; a fruit 

 that grows in a pod, like that of a large kidney-bean, 

 which, when it is roasted, eats very much like a 

 chesnut, by the natives called AJiee ; a tree called 

 TVharra, called in the East Indies Pandanes, which 

 produces fruit, something like the pine-apple ; a shrub 

 called Nono ; the Morinda, which also produces 

 fruit ; a species of fern, of which the root is eaten, 

 and sometimes the leaves ; and a plant called Theve, 

 of which the root also is eaten : but the fruits of the 

 Nono, the fern, and the Theve, are eaten only by the 

 inferior people, and in times of scarcity. All these, 

 which serve the inhabitants for food, the earth pro- 

 duces spontaneously, or with so little culture, that 

 they seem to be exempted from the first general 

 curse, that " man should eat his bread in the sweat 

 of his brow." They have also the Chinese paper 

 mulberry, morus papyrifera, which they call Aouta ; 

 a tree resembling the wild fig-tree of the West Indies ; 

 another species of fig, which they call Matte ; the 

 cordia sebestina orientalis, which they call Eton ; a 

 kind of Cyperus grass, which they call Moo ; a spe- 

 cies of tournefortia, which they call Taheinoo ; an- 

 other of the convolvulus poluce, which they call Eurhe; 

 the solanum centifolium, which they call Ebooa ; the 

 calophyllum mophylum, which they call Tamannu ; the 

 hibiscus tiliaceus, called Poerou, sl frutescent nettle ; 

 the urtica argentea, called Erowa ; with many other 

 plants which cannot here be particularly mentioned : 

 those that have been named already will be referred 

 to in the subsequent part of this work. 



They have no European fruit, garden stuff, pulse, 

 or legumes, nor grain of any kind. 



Of tame animals they have only hogs, dogs, and 

 poultry ; neither is there a wild animal in the island, 

 except ducks, pigeons, paroquets, with a few other 

 birds, and rats, there being no other quadruped, nor 



