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You will perceive fix diftind kinds of 

 rice ; yoa will fee barley of a fuperior 

 beauty ; and you will diftinguifh tea kiads 

 of yams, fome of which are as large as one's 

 thigh, and all of them fit for fupplying 

 food to men as ivell as to cattle. But be-" 

 fides thcfe roots, which require fome care 

 and cultivation, there are others abfoiutely 

 wild^ called by the iflanders fi^nghhs. This 

 root, which is as large as a man's body, has 

 a delicate tafte, and is covered with a red- 

 difh coloured fkin. We are afiiired that it 

 both allays hunger and quenches thirft ; 

 it is diuretic, and eafy of digeftion. 



You may procure alfo various kinds of 

 turnips and beans, with peafe of an csqui- 

 fite tafte. 



The varvattes refemblcs the caper Qirub, 

 and flowers in the fame manner. Each 

 pod contains a fmall pea of the fize of a 



lentil. 



