236 PINE APPLES. 



LIB. iv. refreshetli and quencheth the thirst; but the Papas and 

 Ocas be the chiefe for nourishment and substance. The 

 Indians esteeme garlic aboye all the rootes of Europe, and 

 hold it for a fruite of great force; wherein they want 

 no reason, for it comforts and warmes the stomacke, and 

 they eate it with an appetite rawe as it comes out of the 

 ground. 



CHAP. xix. Of divers sortcs of green Hearbes and Pulses, 

 and of those they call Pepinos and Pine Apples, Straw 

 berries of Chile , and of Cherries. 



Seeing wee have begunne with the lesser Plants, I might 

 in few wordes touch that which concernes Flowers and Pot- 

 hearbes, and that which the Latines call Arbusta, without 

 any mention of trees. There are some kindes of these 

 shrubbes at the Indies which are of very good taste. The 

 first Spaniards named many things at the Indies with such 

 Spanish names as they did most resemble, as Pines, 

 Pepinos and Cherries, although they be very different 

 fruites to those which are so called in Spaine. The Pines, 

 or Pine-aples, are of the same fashion and forme outwardly 

 to those of Castillo, but within they wholly differ, for that 

 they have neither apples, nor scales, but are all one flesh, 

 which may be eaten when the skinne is off. It is a fruite 

 that hath an excellent smell, and is very pleasant and 

 delightfull in taste, it is full of iuyce, and of a sweete and 

 sharpe taste, they eate it being cut in morcells, and steeped 

 a while in water and salt. Some say that this breedes 

 choler, and that the vse thereof is not very healthfull. But 

 I have not scene any experience thereof, that might breede 

 beleefe. They grow one by one like a cane or stalke, which 

 riseth amongst many leaves, like to the lillie, but some 

 what bigger. The apple is on the toppe of every cane, it 



