3^2 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



The Admiral had invited all the officers to 

 accompany him, at five o'clock in the after- 

 noon, to pay a vifit to the Governor. Knowing 

 nothing of this arrangement, I went on fhore. 

 with fome perfons belonging to our (hip, in 

 order to nroll about the town : it is furrounded 

 by gardens, where the principal culture is that 

 of trees, becaufe they favour the indolence na- 

 tural to man under a burning fky, by yielding 

 him, in profufion, delicious fruits, which require 

 fcarcely any other trouble than to gather them. 



Betides the wild fpecies of bread-fruit tree 

 which is here met with, we were told that 

 there was another that bore fruit, all the feeds 

 of which are abortive ; but this fruit is of a mid- 

 dling lizc, and the tree does not produce it in 

 any great quantity. 



Different varieties of plantain-trees, and a 

 great many fpecies of orange-trees, were growing 

 in thefc delightful gardens ; the guava, the cuf- 

 tard-applc, and different fpecies of annotue, here 

 yielded their exquifitc fruits. I alfo remarked 

 a few trees of henne (lawfonia inermis), which 

 rofe to the height of three or four meters. 



Various odoriferous plants were here fcattered 

 with profufion. I met with the chalcas paniculata, 

 the michclui champaca, the tfc'uimpaca, and teve- 

 ral fpecies of uvaria : the Arabian jafmine, the 

 tytianthesfambac, rifing among thefe charming 



trees, 



