Sugar, Wine. ' Fruits. 5 ^ 
tugd{ar Sugar, their other Manufa£lure,'^«-i^99» 
and returns with it direftly thither : For 
’tis reported that there are feveral fmall 
Sugar-works on this Ifland , from which 
they fend home near ido Tun every year ; 
and they have plenty of Cottoii growing 
up in the Country, wherewith they doath 
themfelves, and fend alfo a great deal to 
Brazil. They have Vines, of which they 
make fome Wine : but the European Ships 
furnifh them with better ; tho’ they drink 
but little of any. Their diicf Fruits are, 
(befides Plantains in abundance) Oranges^ 
Lemons , Citrons , Melons, (^both Musk 
and Water-melons) Limes, Guava’s, Pom- 
granates. Quinces, Cuftard- Apples, and 
Papah’s, &c. 
The Cuftard-Apple (as we call it) is a 
Fruit as big as a Pomegranate^ and much of 
tlie farne colour.- The out-fide Husk^ 
Shell or Rind ^ is for fubftance and thick- 
nefs between the Shell of a Pomegranate^ 
and the Peel of a Sevil Orange ; fofter than 
this, yet more brittle than that. The Coat 
or Covering is alfo remarkable in that it is 
befet round with fmall regular Knobs or 
Rifings; and the infide of the Fruit is full of 
a white foft Pulp, fweet and very pleafant,' 
and moft refembling a Cuftard of any 
thing , both in Colour and Taft : Froiri 
whence probably it is called a Cuftard- 
Apple by our Engli(h. It has inthemid- 
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