76 A VOYAGE TO Book I. 



fruit ; the colour brown, ftreaked with red. The 

 llefh is of a bright red, with little juice, vifcid, fibrous, 

 and compaft. It cannot be claifed among delicious 

 fruits, though its taile is not diiagreeable. It con- 

 tains a few feeds, which are hard and oblong. 



The maméis are of the fame colour with the fapotes, 

 except that the brown is fomeihing lighter. Their 

 rind alfo requires the afiiflance of a knife, to feparate 

 it. The fruit is very much like the brunion ph.im, ^^ 

 but more folid, lefs juicy, and, in colour, more 

 lively. The none is proportion:.d to the largenefs of 

 the fruit, which is betwixt three and four inches in 

 diameter, almoft circular, but with fome irregularities. 

 The none is an inrh and a half in length, and its 

 breadth in the middle, where it is round, one inch. 

 Its external furface is fmooth, and of a brown colour, 

 except on ®ne fide, where it is vertically croffcd by 

 a flreak rcfcmbling the flice of a melon in colour 

 and fhape. This itreak has neither the hardnefs nor 

 fmóothnefs of the rcil of the furface of the ftone, which 

 feems in this place covered and Ibmething fcabrous. 



The coco is a very common Iruit, and but little 

 ef eemed ; all the ule made of it being to drink the 

 juice whilft fluid, before it begins to curdle. It is, 

 when firft gathered, full of a whitiih liquor, as fluid 

 as water, very ph afant and relrefhing. The Ihell 

 which covers the coco nut, is green on the outiide, 

 and white within; full of It rong fibres, traverfing it 

 on all fides in a longitudinal direélion, but eafily se- 

 parated with a knile. . The coco is aUb whitiili at 

 that time, and not hard; but, as the confifiency of 

 its pulp increafcs, the green colour of its fliell dege- 

 nerates into yellow. As foon as the kernel has at- 

 tained its maturity, this dries and changes to brown ; 

 then becomes fibrous, and fo compa6l, as pot to be 

 cafily opened and leparatcd from the coco, to which 

 lome of thoie fibres adhere. From the pulp of thefe 



cocos 



