! j20 Mr. WAFER'; Ttefcription 



j Tine- On the Ifthmus grows that delicious Fruit which 



| ^H le ' we call the Pine- Apple, in Shape not much unlike 

 an Artichoke, and as big as a Man's Heaji. It 

 grows like a Crown on the Top of a Stalk about as 

 big as one's Arm, and a Foot and a half high. 

 The Fruit is ordinarily about 6 Pound Weight; 

 and is inclos'd with fhort prickly Leaves like an 

 Artichoke. They do not ftrip but pare off thefe 

 Leaves to get at the Fruit ; which hath no Stone 

 or Kernel in it. *Tis very juicy ; and fome" fancy it 

 to refemble the Tafte of all the mod delicious 

 Fruits one can imagine mix'd together. It ripens 

 at all Times of the Year, and is rais'd from new 

 Plants. The Leaves of the Plant are broad, about 

 a Foot long, and grow from the Root, 

 Prhkfa On the Main alfo grows the Prickle-pear, which is 

 Pear. a thick-leav'd Plant about 4 Foot high, full of 

 Prickles all over. That which they call the Pear 

 grows at the Extremity of the Leaf. It's a good 

 Fruit, much eaten by the Indians and others. 

 Popes There are Popes Heads, as we call them, on the 

 heads. Main. They are a Plant or Shrub growing like a 

 Mole-hill, and full of Spurs a Span long, fharp, 

 thick and hard, with a black Point. They make 

 a very good Fence, galling the Feet and Legs of 

 any who come among them. 

 sugar- They have Sugar-Canes on the Ifthmus but the 

 Canes. Indians make no other ufe of them, than to chew 



them and fuck out the Juice. 

 Manchi- There is on the I/lands , a Tree which is called 

 .met. Manchineel, and its Fruit the Manchineel Apple. 

 *Tis in Smell and Colour like a lovely pleafant Ap- 

 ple, fmall and fragrant, but of a poifonous Na- 

 ture, for if any eat of any living Creature that has 

 happened to feed on that Fruit, they are poifon'd 

 thereby, tho' perhaps not mortally. The Trees 

 grow in green Spots they are low, with a large 

 Body, fpreading out and full of Leaves, I have 



heard 



