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manifold uses, was transplanted there from Eiip, 

 thrives well. The other groups of islands procure 

 what they want from Eap. Ulea and similar 

 low islands of these seas produce many kinds of 

 plants that are not at Radack, and nature is far 

 more bountifid to them. Don Luis de Torres 

 has even brouglit plants from Ulea to Guahon, 

 which were foreign to the Flora of tliat high 

 country. 



All these islands are rich in bread fruit-trees, 

 roots, and banana. Tlie inhabitants of the low 

 islands seem principally to subsist on the bread- 

 fruit tree, many kinds of which, bearing large fiuit, 

 are cultivated under diflerent names. On the high 

 islands, the roots are the chief support of the 

 people. The sweet potatoe (Ccmiotes*) which, 

 together with the seeds of other useful plants, 

 Cayal, three of his brothers, and his father, Corr, 

 brought back to Eap from the Bisayas, (Phili})pine 

 islands,) whither they had been driven, spread 

 from thence to other islands (see Cantova); but, ac- 

 cording to Kadu,'it does not grow at Ulea. The 

 roots of the arum species attain to perfection only 

 on liigh land, and likewise in Feis. In t!ie Pelew 

 islands! different varieties of one kind are culti- 



* The Spaniards call the sweet roots Camolcs, and they seem 

 to have borrowed this word from the language of the Philip- 

 pines. The Camotc of the Tagalese and Bisciyas was cultivated 

 on these islands before the conquest. 



f In the account of the Peiew Islands, there is every where 

 yams, i. e. Dioscorea, by mistake;, for taro, or arum. Lin. 



