NORTH AMERICA. 
the leaves are lanceolate and entire, two or three 
inches in length and one in breadth, of a deep green 
colour, and polifhed ; at the foot of each leaf grows 
a (iiff fliarp thorn ; the flowers are fmall and in 
clufters, of a greenifh yellow colour, and fweet 
fcented ; they are fucceeded by a large oval fruit, 
of the mape and fize of an ordinary plumb, of a 
fine yellow colour when ripe ; a foft fweet pulp co- 
vers a nut which has a thin fhell, enclofing a white 
kernel fomewhat of the confidence and tafte of the 
fweet almond, but more oily and very much like 
hard tallow, which induced my father when he firft 
obferved it, to call it the tallow-nut. 
At the upper end of this bluff is a fine orange 
grove. Here my Indian companion requefted me 
to fet him on Ihore, being already tired of rowing 
under a fervid fun, and having for fome time inti- 
mated a diflike to his fituation. I readily complied 
with his defire, knowing the impoffibility of com- 
pelling an Indian againft his own inclinations, or 
even prevailing upon him by reafonable arguments, 
when labour is in the queftion. Before my veffel 
reached the fhore, he fprang out of her and landed, 
when uttering a fhrill and terrible whoop, he bound- 
ed oft like a roebuck, and I loft fight of him. 1 at 
firfl apprehended, that as he took his gun with him, 
he intended to hunt for fome game and return to me 
in the evening. The day being exoefflvely hot and 
fultry, I concluded to take up my quarters here until 
next morning. 
The Indian not returning this morning, I fet fail 
alone. The coalts on each fide had much the fame 
appearance as already defcribed. The palm trees 
here feem to be of a different fpecies from the cabbage 
tree j their ftraight trunks are fixty, eighty, or ninety 
I . feet 
