Hi/lone of the Indie!, lib.^* 



grow in the hotcft partes of new 'Sf Aim , neither have I 

 knowledge of any f uch fruite in the firme land of PC- 

 ru. As for the BUnchmnnger , it is that Annum or Gua- 

 jAfuiftf, which gro wes in the firnie land, which is faflio- 

 ned like vnto a peare,a little fliarpe and opened, with 

 in it is white, tender and foft like butter, fweeteand of 

 apleafingtafte: It is no whitmeatc, though they call 

 it Blancktmavger , but in truth they have added much 

 vnto it, by giving this name : although it be delicate 

 and of a fowcie and delicious tafte, and according to 

 the iudgement of fome , it is held for the beft fruite of 

 the Indies, yet hath itmanyblacfce kernells within it, 

 and the beftvvhich I have feeneis in new/v*/^ 5 wherc 

 the Capofosgpovr, which be like vnto cheries, with a 

 ftone , but fome what bigger : the forme and fhape is 

 like vnto cheries, of a good tafte, being fweete aud 

 fharpe; but I have not fccne any Capollyu in any other 

 Countric, 



Ofmanyforttsoffrttit f Trces,ofC0C6S, Almondes, of 

 the Andes > And Almonds ofChachapeyas. 

 iC HAP* 26. 



IT were not poflible to reckon all the fruites and 

 trees at ihc Indies, for that I remember not many, 

 and there are many more whereof I have no know. 

 ledge- and in my opinion, it were troublefome to 

 (pcake of all thofc I now remember. There are fome 

 groflc fruites , as thofc which they call Lncum^ (of 

 which fruite they fpeake in a proverbe>that it is a coun- 

 terfet riccThe^Prfrand the nuttes 



which they call imprifoned whicTTfruitcs feemeto 

 many, to be the fame kinde of nuttes we have in Sfaine$ 



yea 



