18^ DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH. 
tised by all ranks, from the highest to the lowest* 
Its operations, according to the general practice 
throughout Africa, are performed entirely with 
the hand ; God not having given them wisdom 
" to serve themselves of the beasts for that pur- 
" pose." The only grain which Jobson had ever 
seen before was rice ; " the rest were rather seeds 
" than grains." They do not make bread, but 
boil the grain and roll it up in balls. The fruits 
are bananas, lemons, and oranges ; the palm-tree 
is also noticed. Kolla nuts, repeatedly mentioned 
by Park, are described by Jobson. He says, they 
are much like our larger sort of chesnuts ; the 
taste very bitter, " but causing that which is taken 
" immediately after to be very sweet, water tast- 
" ing like white wine or sugar. Fifty of these 
" would buy a wife." 
Among wild animals, he mentions the lion, 
ounce, civet-cat, and porcupine. Of these the 
ounce appears to be the fiercest. Elephants were 
considered formidable by the natives ; but, from 
the Europeans, they fled " as fearefull as a forest 
" stagge." Those who had killed elephants pre- 
served their tails as monuments of their prowess. 
Wild bulls, wild boars, and antelopes, are also 
mentioned ; and he adds to the list, " beasts un- 
** known." The monkeys and baboons were ex- 
ceedingly numerous. The latter go in herds of 
three or four thousand, under the conduct of the 
