Muftef an- de-ova. Palm^berry^ &c. 71 
MaJieran-de-ova\ are a round Fruit as-^«-u599* 
big as large Hazel-Nuts, cover’d with thin 
brittle fhells of a blackifli colour: They 
have a fmall Stone in the middle, inclofed 
within a black pulpy fubftance, which is 
of a pleafant tafte. The outlide fhell is 
chewed with the Fruit, and fpit out with 
the Stone, when the pulp is fuck’d from 
them. The Tree that bears this Fruit is 
tall, large, and very hard Wood. I have 
not feenany of thefe five la^ named Fruits, 
but had them thus defcribed to me by an 
Ir/Jh Inhabitant of Bahia ; tho’ as to this 
laif, I am apt to believe, I may haVe both 
feen and eaten of them in Jchi/i in Su- 
matra. 
Balm-Berries (called here Dendees) grow 
plentifully about Bahia ; the largeft are as 
big as Wall-nuts; they grow in bunches 
on the top of the Body of the Tree, a- 
mong the Roots of the Branches or Leaves, 
as all Fruits of the Palm kind do. Thefe 
are the fame kind of Berries or Nuts as 
thofe they make the Palm Oyl with on the 
Coaft of Guinea, where they abound : And 
I was told that they make Oyl with them 
here alfo. They fometimes roaff and eat 
them; butwhenihadoneroaftedtopj-ove 
it, I did not like it. 
PhjJick-NutSj as our Seamen call them, 
are called here Pineon ; and Jgnus Cajlus 
is called here Carrepat : Thefe both grow 
F 4 here : 
