7 2 Fruits^ Roots^ and Herhs. 
'4«.i 699. Iiere : {o do Mendibees, a Fruit like Fhyftck- 
Nuts. They fcorch them in a Fan over the 
fire before they eat them. 
Here are alfo great plenty of Cabbage- 
Trees, and other Fruits, which I did not 
get information about, and which I had 
not the opportunity of feeing ; becaufe 
this was not theSeafon,it being our Spring, 
and confequently their Autumn, when 
their beft Fruits were gone, tho’ fome were 
left. However I faw abundance of wild 
Berries in the* Woods and Field, but I 
could not learn their Names or Nature. 
They have withal good plenty of ground 
Fruit, as CdUvAnces^ Pine-Apples, Pum- 
kins, Water-Melons, Musk-Melons, Cu- 
cumbers; and Roots, as Yams, Potato’s 
CaiTava’s, &c. Garden Herbs alfo good 
ftore ; as Cabbages, Turnips, Onions, 
Leeks, and abundance of other Salading, 
and for the Pot. Drugs of feveral forts, 
'viz. Safi’afi as, Snake-Root, &c. Befide the 
Woods I mentioned for Dying, and other 
Ufes, as Fuftick, Speckled- wood, &c. 
I brought home with me from hence a 
good number of Plants, dried betw’^een the 
leaves of Books ; of fome of the choiced: of 
which, that are not fpoii’d, I may give a 
Specimen at thejifid of the Book. 
Here arefaid to be great plenty and va- 
riety of Wild-Fowl, Temmd' s.^Maccaw’s 
( which are called here jAckoo’’Sy and arc 
a larger fort of Parrots, andfcarcer) Par- 
