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u..-^-«. ^ are found as often in a natural Hate, as planted. 



The roots are yams, of which are two forts ; one black, 

 and fo large, that it often weighs twenty or thirty pounds ; 

 the other white, and long, feldom weighing a pound; a 

 large root, called kappe ; one not unlike our white potatoes, 

 called viaivhaba ; the talo, or coccos of other places ; and an- 

 other, n^va&djeejee. 



Befides vaft numbers of cocoa-nut trees, they have three 

 other forts of palms, two of which are very fcarce. One of 

 them is called beeoo; which grows almoft as high as the 

 cocoa-tree, has very largd leaves plaited like a fan, and 

 clufters or bunches of globular nuts, not larger than a fmall 

 piftol ball, growing amongft the branches, with a very hard 

 kernel, which is fometimes eat. The other is a kind of 

 cabbage-tree, not diftinguifhable from the cocoa, but by 

 being rather thicker, and by having its leaves more ragged. 

 It has a cabbage three or four feet long; at the top of which 

 are the leaves, and at the bottom the fruit, which is fcarcely 

 two inches long, refembling an oblong cocoa-nut, with an 

 infipid tenacious kernel, called, by the natives, jiecoo^oola, or 

 red cocoa-nut, as it afTumes a reddifli caft when ripe. The 

 third fort is called ongo ongo, and much commoner, being 

 generally found planted about their fatooka^. It feldom 

 grows higher than five feet, though fometimes to eight; 

 and has a vail number of oval comprefled nuts, as large as 

 a pippin, flicking immediately to the trunk, amongfl: the 

 leaves, which are not eat. There is plenty of excellent 

 fugar-cane, which is cultivated; gourds; bamboo; turmeric; 

 and a fpecies of fig, about the fize of a fmall cherry, called 

 77iatte, which, though wild, is fometimes eat. But the ca- 

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