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All the T^frtcife^ [torn the Caribes to the Bay of Mexico Hotidsi- 
raSytepm in Summer to the Cajmat$ Jjiands^ to lay their Eggs and to 
hatch there. They coot for fourteen daies together, then Jay in one 
night fome three hundred Eggs^ with white and yolk, butn© fhclls ; 
then they coot again^and Jay in the fand^and fo thrice. Then the Male 
is reduced to^ kind of gelly within, and blind, and is fo carried home 
by the Female. Their fat is green, but not offen five to the ftomach, 
though you eat it as broth, ftcw'd. Your Urine looks of a yellowifli 
green, and oily, after eating it. 
There is no manner of Earthy but Sand, at the Feint % yet I hav^e 
eaten admirable Melons^ Musk and Water-Melons, that have grown 
there. A great many trees alfo grow there, efpecially Mangrmes and 
Trickle pears. In other parts it i$ ordinary to ride through woods^ 
that are full of very large Timber^ and yet have nothing of Earth, 
only firm Rock, to grow in. 
In fome ground that is full of Salt peter, your Tcbacco^ that grows 
wild, flaflieth as it is fmoked. 
The fruit of Trees there of the fame kind ripen not at one time : 
There is a Hedge of Plum-trees of two miles long, as you go to the 
Spanifh Tmn 5 on it I have many times remarked fome Trees in 
Jlorver^ others with Rtfe^ others with Green fruit, and others to have 
done bearing, at the fame time. The like 1 have obferved in other 
Trees. Jafmins I have feen to blow before their leaves, and alfo after 
their leaves are fallen again. 
The Siwer-fep^z pleafant fruk there ^hath a flower with three leavesi 
whenthefe open,they give fo great a crack^thac I have more than once 
runfrom under the Tree,thinking it all to be tumbling down. 
There is a Bird, called a Pellican^ but a kind of Cermorant^ that is of 
tafte Fiihy, but if it lie buried in the ground but two hours, it will 
lofe that tafte, as I have been told for certain. 
I tried fome Andjfis of bodies by letting Ants eat them \ and I found 
that they would eat Brown Sugar Wbite^md at laft reduce it to an 
fid powder. So they reduced a pound oisalcteil to 2 drams of powder. 
At our firft coming there, we fweat continually in great drops for 
3 quarters of a year,and then it ceafeth : During that fpacel could not 
perceive my felf or others more dry^more coftive^or to make lefs urine, 
than in England. Neither does all that fweat make us faintilh. If one 
be dry, h is a thirft generally arifing from the heat of the Lungs, and 
z&QStim the Mouth, vvhich is beft cooled by a little Brandy^ 
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