the South-Sea. 



we took, which was fix Foot long, and is very like the 

 Petimbuaba of Brafil, mentioned in Margrave, p. 148. 

 There are alfo fometimes taken Bourfes, or Purfes, a 

 moft beautiful fort of Fifh, defcribed in the Voyage of 

 Monfieur de Gennes, by the Sieur Froger. In the Tor- 

 tois Seafon, there are prodigious Numbers of them, as 

 appears by the infinite Quantity of their Shells and Ske- 

 letons that lie along the Shore, The Inhabitants of the 

 Ifland of S. Anthony come every Year to take and dry 

 them, trading with, and feeding on them. In fliort, 

 there are even great Numbers of Whales. 



We could have wifh'd to have found fome Game to 

 refrefii us after our hard Fare at Sea, but there is fcarce 

 any in that Ifland $ nor fo much as a Beaft, except* 

 wild Afles, and Goats on the Tops of the Mountains^ 

 hard to be come at y fome few Pintados, and no other 

 Birds. 



Nor had we better Fortune as for Fruit, the Soil be- 

 ing fo barren that it produces none ; only in the Valleys 

 there are little Tufts of Tamarind Trees, a few Cotton 

 and Lemon Trees : However, I there faw fome curious 

 Plants, as the Tithymalus arbor efcens, or branch' d Spurge ; Plant 

 the Abrotanum mas, or the Male Southernwood, of a 

 moft fweet Scent., and a beautiful Green > a yellow 

 Flower, the Stem whereof has no Leaves ; the Palma 

 Chrifti, or Ricinus Amerkanus, by the Spaniards in Peru 

 calPd Pillerilla; and they affirm, that the Leaf of it, ap- 

 ply'd to the Breafts of Nurfes, brings Milk into them, 

 and, apply'd to their Loins, draws it away ; the Seed of 

 it is exactly like the Indian* Pine-apple Kernel ; in Para- 

 guay they make Oil of it ; abundance of Houfleek of 

 feveral forts, fome of which have thick round Leaves 

 like an Hazel-nut,- Coloquintida-apples > Lhnonium ?nari- 

 timum, very thick > Lavender without any Scent; Dog- 

 grafo, drc. 



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