A True and Exait Hiffory 
Tipe, asbig as the largeft Pomewater, but juft ofthe colour ofa War- 
den. When ‘tisripe, we gather it, and keep it one day, and then itis 
fit to be eaten. We cutahole at the leffer end, (that it may ftand the 
firmer in the difh) fo big, asthat a {poonmay go in with eafe, and 
with thefpoon eat it. Never was excellent Cuftard more like it felf} 
than this toit; only thisaddition, which makes it tranfcend all Cu- 
{tards that artcanmake, though of natural ingredients; and that is, 
a fruity tafte, which makesit {trange and admirable. . Many feeds there 
arein it, but fofmooth, as you may put them out of your mouth with 
fome pleafure. 
“Twas never my luck to fee any of thofe trees, that bear the Ancho- | 
vie-Pears, nor to tafte of the fruit, and therefore can give youno ac- 
count of that tree; only tolet you know, that thereis fucha treein 
thelfland. 
Trees of The Macow is one of the {trangeft trees,the Ifland affords 5 the body 
mixt kinds. | and branches being ftuck all over with prickles,of the fineft forms that 
A feen. are 
They. are black as jet, or Ebony polith’d ; the fizes, from oneto {e- 
ven inches long, fharp atthe point, with proportionable increafings, 
from that part where it grows to the tree or bough, and wav'd, as I 
have feen {ome fwords, from the point tothe hilts, the fineft natural 
pick-toothsthat can grow. I brought a large bundle with me, but had 
them pickt out of my Boxby theway. This tree is about the large- 
nefs of an ordinary Willow, the leaves of that colour and fhape , but 
extreamly {tiff and hard. oe : | 
It bears at top a large tuff of fruit, which we call Apples, but they. 
are not a fruit to be eaten ;their colour as their leaves, willow-green, 
and juft fuch forfhape as the Cyprus tree bears, Sure, Nature form’d 
this tree to fome great purpofe, fhe is foarm’d3 for neither man nor 
aft cantouch her, without being wounded. She is well fhap’d, her 
body ftrait, her branches well proportion’d, her top round, | 
Date tree. Next to this in colourare Date-trees, but the leaves fomewhat lon- 
ger- Thefhape of this tree I cannot give you, having never feen any 
old enough to bear thename of a tree, but {prigs rifing from the root, 
at leaft ten foot high. = | = 
Mangrave.|_ The Mangrave isatree of fuch note, as the muft not be forgotten ; 
for , though fhe be not of the tall and lufty fort of trees, yet, fhe is of 
| greatextent; for, there drops from her limbs a kind of Gum > Which 
a hangs together one drop after another, tillit touch the ground, and 
then takesroot, and makesan addition to thetree. So that if all thefe 
may be faid to be one and the fame tree, we may fay , that a Man- 
grave tree may very well hidea troop of Horfe. ‘The bark of this tree 
being well Scheme will make very ftrong ropes, and the Indians 
_|Mmakeitas fine asflax, and {pin it into fine thred, whereof they make} 
‘Hamocks, and divers other things they wear : and I have heard » the 
jue they wear is made of this bark, as alfo their chairs and 
ftooles, | ae 
| calibap. | The Calibath tree bears leaves of the falleft and richett green of 
. 9] any thatI know, and the greateft plenty of leaves; her fruit not for 
| aA | food, itisfor the moft part as big asthat ofthe Coco, round asa ball ,| 
: green | 
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_| Anchovie- 
Pear. 
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