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The VOYAGES of 
Book I. 
'or loofe Stone, without any frefli -water Rivers or Ponds, lijh : It has, in the Middle, a few fmall black Stones or 
except o'ne Spring in the Centre of the Ife, running thro’ Kernels, but no Core ; for *tis all Pulp: The Tree that 
a Valley, where the Inhabitants have three fmall Towns, bears this Fruit is about the Bignefs of a Quince-tree, with 
Pinofe , St. John's, and Lagoa . The Inhabitants are Ne- long, fmall, and thick-fet Branches fpread much abroad, 
grots by Defcent, and refembling thole of Africa. As they At the Extremity of here-and-there one of which, the Fruit 
are Subjects of Portugal, fo they follow their Religion* growls upon a Stalk of its own, about nine or ten Inches 
but have PrMls and a Governor of their own Nation, tong, {lender and tough, and hanging down with its own 
Their Fruits are chiefly Figs, and Water-melons ; their Weight. A large Tree of this Sort bears ufually twenty 
bed Land-animals Goats and Affes: The Sea affords them or thirty Apples, very feldom more. This Fruit c-rows 
Dolphins, Bonettas, Mullets, Snappers, SilVer-filh, Gar- in mod Countries within the Tropics ; I have feen of them 
filh, and green Tortoifes, during the wet Seafon in May, (tho* I omitted the Defcription of them before) all over 
June, July, and Auguft, which is their Time of Laying, the Weft Indies , both Continent and Elands, as alfo in 
It may feem fomewhat ftrange, that not Turtle only, but Brafil, and in the Eaft Indies. The Papah too is found in 
Ml Sorts of amphibious Creatures, lay their Eggs, not in - all thefe Countries, though I have not hitherto deferibed it: 
the dry, but wet Seafon, which one would imagine might It is a Fruit about the Bignefs of a Mufk-melon, hollow as 
dedroy them. To account for this, however, with fome it is, and much refembling it in Shape and Colour, both 
Degree of Probability, we ought to confider, that thefe Outfide and Infide ; only in the Middle, indeacl of flat 
Animals all lay their Eggs very deep ; fo that the Rain, be- Kernels which the Melons have, thefe have an Handful of 
ing drank up by the Sand over them, not only never blackifh Seeds, about the Bignefs of Pepper-corns, whofe 
reaches fo as to fpoilthem, but checks alfo therifing Heat ; Tafte is alfo hot on the Tongue, fomewhat like Pepper, 
and, by keeping it down, anfwers all the Intentions of a The Fruit itfelfis fweet, foft, and lufeious, when ripe-, but. 
Stove, Or hot Bed. j while green, is hard and unfavoury though, even then, be- 
5. February \g. we failed from hence to St. Iago , fix ing boiled-, and eaten with fait Pork or Beef, it ferves in- 
Leagues to the Wed: and, the next Day, anchored near dead of Turneps, and is as much efteemed. The Papah- 
St. Iago Town, lying on the South-wed: Side of the Ide, tree is about ten or twelve Feet high the Body, near the 
in 1 6° North Latitude, the Refidence of the Portuguefe Ground, may be a Fbot and an half or two Feet Diameter, 
Governor, and of the Bifliop of all the Cape Verd Mands. and it grows up taper to the Top : It has no Branches at 
This Town (lands (battering againft the Sides of two all, but only large Leaves growing upon Stalks, which 
Mountains, between which there is a great Valley, which proceed out of the Body : The Leaves are of a roiighifh 
is about 200 Yards wide. Againft the Sea there is a Form, and jagged about the Edges, having their Stalks, 
draggling Street, Houfes on each Side, and a Run of Wa- or Stumps, longer or (horter, as they grow nearer to or 
ter in the Bottom, which empties itfelf into a fine fmall further from the Top. They begin to fpring from out of 
Cove, or fandy Bay, where the Sea is commonly very the Body of the Tree at about fix or feven Feet high from 
ftnooth ; fo that here is good Watering and good Landing the Ground, the Trunk being bare below ; but, above that, 
at any time, though the Road be rocky, and bad for Ships : the Leaves grow thicker and larger till towards its Top, 
Juft by the Landing-place there is a fmall Fort, almoft where they are clofe and broad. The Fruit grows only 
level with the Sea, where is always a Corps-de-garde kept among the Leaves, and thickeft among the thickeft of them ; 
on the Top of an Hill : Above the Town there is another infomuch that, towards the Top of the Tree, the Papahs 
Fort, which, by the Wall that is to be feen from the Road, fpring forth from its Body, as thick as they can (lick one 
foems to be a large Place : They have Cannon mounted by another ; but then, lower down, where the Leaves are 
there but how many I know not, neither what Ufe that thinner, the Fruit is larger, and of the Size I have de- 
Fort can be of, except it be for Salutes. The Town may feribed ; and at the Top, where they are thick, they are but 
confift of 2 or 300 Houfes, all built of rough Stone, have- fmall, and no bigger than ordinary Turneps, yet tailed like 
ing alfo one Convent, and one Church ; the People in the reft. As to the Land-animals, Fowls and Fifh, there 
general a black, or at lead of a mixt Colour, except only is nothing I can fay about them that ought to detain the 
fome few of the better fort, viz. the Governor, The Bi- Reader; and therefore I will proceed in my Voyage, after 
fhop, fome of the Gentlemen, and fome of the Padres ; remarking, that the Road of St. Iago is fo bad, that in my, 
for fome of thefe are black. The People about Praya are Lite I think I never faw one worfe. 
thievifh ; but thofe of St. Iago Town, living under their 6. We failed from St. Iago February 22. and my Inten- 
Governor’s Eye, are more orderly, though generally poor, tion was to have gone to Pernambuca, and from thence di- 
having little Trade ; yet, befides chance Ships of other re£Uy to the Coaft of New Guiney ; and this out of pure 
Nations, there come hither a Portuguefe Ship or two every Compaflion to my Ship’s Company, who were but very 
Year, in their Way to Brafil. Thefe vend among them young Seamen, there being only two in the Ship that had 
a few European Commodities, and take off their principal ever paffed the Line, and thofe two were none of the oldeft. 
Manufactures, viz. ftriped Cotton, which they carry They, therefore, grew very uneafy ; talked much of re- 
with them to Brafil. Another Ship alfo comes hither turning to England ; and, at laft, gave me fo much Dif- 
from Portugal for Sugar, their other Manufacture, and quiet, that I began to doubt Pernambuca was no fit Place 
returns with it direCtly thither: For ’tis reported, that for me to truft myfelfin, becaufe, as the Ship muftride two 
there are feveral fmall Sugar-works on this Ifland, from or three Leagues from the Town, and not under the 
which they fend Home near 100 Tons every Year: And Command of any Fort, they might eafily, in cafe of my 
they have Plenty of Cotton growing up in the Country, going on fhore, have cut or dipt their Cables, and have 
wherewith they cloathe themfelves, and fend alfo a deal to run away with the Ship. After mature Deliberation, there- 
Brqfil. They have Vines, of the Fruit of which they fore, I altered my Courfe, and ftood away for the Bay of 
make fome Wine ; but the European Ships furnifli them All Saints, and arrived before the Place on March 25. and 
with better, though they drink but little of any. Their anchored in the Port very fafely. Bahia de todoslos Santos, 
chief Fruits are fbefides Plantains in abundance) Oranges, as the Portuguefe call it, or I'he Bay of All Saints, lies in 
Lemons, Citrons, Melons, (both Mu(k and Water-melons) the Latitude of 13 0 South, has the Conveniency of a very 
Limes, Guavas, Pomgranates, Quinces, Cuftard-apples, good Harbour, lecured and commanded by three feveral 
and Papahs, &c. The Cuftard-apple (as we call it) is a Forts. The Place itfelf confifts of about 2000 Houfes, 
Fruit as big as a Pomgranate, and much of the fame Co- mod of which are hid from the Ships in the Harbour; but 
tour : The outfide Husk-fhell, or Rind, is, for Subftance thofe that are feen, being intermixed with Trees, afford a 
and Thicknefs, between the Shell of a Pomgranate and very pleafant and delightful ProfpeCt. There are, in the 
the Peel of a Seville Orange, fofter than this, yet more bit- Town, thirteen Churches, Chapels, and Convents, befides 
ter than that. The Coat or Covering is alfo remarkable, one Nunnery, viz. the Ecclefia major, or Cathedral, the 
in that it is befet round with fmall regular Knobs, or Jefuits College, which are the chief, and both in Sight from 
Riflings ; and the Infide of the Fruit is full of a white foft the Flarbour ; St. Antonio, Sta. Barbara, both Pari fh- 
Pulp, fweet, and very pleafant, and moft refembling a churches; the Fr and fan Church, and the Dominicans, afid 
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