NORTH AMERICA, 
IIJ 
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 ftlff fharp thorn ; the flowers are fmall and in 
clutters, of a greenifh yellow colour, and fweet 
fcented ; they are fucceeded by a large oval fruit, 
of the fhape and fize of an ordinary plumb, of a 
fine yellow colour when ripe $ a left 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 fhore, being already tired of rowing 
under a fervid fun, and having for fome time inti- 
mated a diflike to his fituation. 1 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 off like a roebuck, and I loft fight of him. 
I at firft 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 exceffively 
hot and fultry, I concluded to take up my quarters 
here until next morning. 
The Indian not returning this morning, I fat fail 
alone. The coafts on each fide had much the fame 
appearance as already deferibed. The palm trees 
here feem to be of a different fpecies from the cabbage 
tree their ftraight trunks are fixty, eighty, or ninety 
I feet 
