44 A FllUITFaL ISLAND. [169I. 



Liraons, etc. ' We might name 20 other different kinds of 

 Trees that bear Fruit good to eat, and the variety of their 

 Tastes are enough to content those of all Men. Aloes, Indigo, 

 Sugar Canes, Cotton, Ananas, Bananas, Tobacco, Potatoes, 

 Pumpkins, Land and Water Melons, Cucumbers, Charibbean 

 Cabages, Beans, Artichokes, a certain sort of Pease, and a 

 hundred other Plants. Fruits or Eoots of this nature grow- 

 naturally every where. 'Tis experienc'd that Indian Corn, 

 Millet, Pice, Wheat, Barley, and Oats grow very well there, 

 and that one may have above one Crop a Year of all these 

 several sorts of Grains. People have had the Curiosity to 

 sow some of each sort of our Pulse and Garden Herbs (which 

 I shall not particularise, for fear of being tiresome), and they 

 all came up to a wonder. The reason is, ^tis an excellent 

 Soil, and the Father of Nature has rendered it admirably 

 fruitful. Since we find very good Grapes there, we have 

 reason to believe one may have very good Wine ; and, no 

 doubt, might with the same success raise any of the Fruit- 

 trees peculiar to our Continent. 



" The black Cattle,^ Hogs and Goats, that were formerly 

 left there by the Portuguese, are so multiply'd that we meet 

 with them in Droves in the Forrests; and one may reason- 

 ably expect that Dear, Sheep, and all Animals that we find 

 any where else, in the same Climate, wou'd in the same 

 manner succeed there. 



" The Fowl that are most plenty in this Island, are Part- 

 ridgeSj Doves, Ducks, Wood-Pigeons, Woodcocks, Quales, 

 Black-Birds, Puets, Thrushes, Geese, Coots, Ducks, Bitterns, 

 Parrots, Herons, Peacocks,'-^ Fools, Frigats, Sparrows, and 



' "En cette annee mil six cens-quarante-neuf, i'y ay fait passer 

 quatre genisses et un toreau, afin d'y multiplier. Et en I'annee mil six 

 cens cinquante-quatre, i'y en ay euuoye autant, lesquelles on trouua 

 qu'elles estoient multipliees jusques a plus de trente." {De Flacourt.) 



2 " In the English translation the word ' Geants' is here given as 

 'peacocks', as though it had been '■ paons'- but at p. 171 by 'giants'" 

 (Strickland). " Les oiseaux de terre sont : le solitaire (comme une 



