jo Mr. WAFE RV Defyription 



and is raisd from new Plants. <* The Leaves 

 of the Plant are broad, about a Foot long!, 

 and grow from the Root. 



wh\ie- On the Main alfo grows the Prickle-pear , 



par. which is a thick-leav'd Plant about four 

 Foot high, full of Prickles all over. That 

 which they call the Pear grows at the ex- 

 tremity of the Leaf. Its a good Fruit, 

 s much eaten by the Indians and others. 



$eajs. There are Popes Heads, as we call them, 

 on the Main. They are a Plant or Shrub 

 growing like a Mole-hill, and full of Spurs 

 a Span long, (harp thick and hard, with 

 a black Point. They make a very goocf 

 Fence, galling the Feet and Legs of any 

 who come among them. 



*f They have Sugar-Canes on the Iflhmm 3 

 but the Indians make no other ufe of 

 them, than to chew them and fuck out the 

 juice, 



mnchi- There is on the IJIands 7 a Tree which is 

 j 1 *'? called Manchimel, audits Fruit the Man- 

 chineel Apple. Tis in Smell and Colour 

 like; a lovely pleafant Apple, fmall and 

 fragrant, but of a poifonous Nature, for 

 if any eat of any living Creature that has 

 happen d to feed on that Fruit, they are 

 poifon d thereby, tho 5 perhaps not mor- 

 tally. The Trees grow in green Spots 5, 

 they are low, with a large Body, fpread- 

 ing out and full of Leaves. I have heard 

 that the Wood hath been us s d in fine car- 



