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and delight; there also flourish pleasant tops of plantains; 
cocoas; guavas, which are a kind of pear; jacs, with a coal of 
armour over it like a hedge-hog's, to guard its weighty fruit, oval 
without from the space of a span, within in fashion like unto squills 
parted; mangos, the delight of India, a plum; pomegranates; 
bananas, which are a sort of plantain, though less, yet much more 
grateful; betel, which must not be slipped by in silence; it rises 
out of the ground twelve or fourteen feet in heighth, the body of 
it green and slender, jointed like a cane, the boughs flaggy and 
spreading; under whose arms it brings forth from its pregnant 
womb, which bursts when her month is come, a cluster of green 
nuts, like walnuts in green shells, but different in the fruit, which 
is hard when dried, and looks like a nutmeg. 
“ Near the towns of Bombaim and Mahim, are woods of 
cocoas; these hortoes being the greatest purchase and estates on 
the island, for some miles together. Up the bay a mile lies Mas- 
sagon, a great fishing- town, peculiarly notable for a fish called 
bum halo, the sustenance of the poorer sort: here the Portugals 
have another church, and religious house, belonging to the Fran- 
ciscans. Beyond it is Pared, where they have another church, and 
demesnes belonging to the Jesuits, to which appertain Siam, or 
Sion, upon a hill. Under these uplands the washes of the sea 
produce a 1 unary tribute of salt, left in pans or pits, made on pur- 
pose at spring tides, for the overflowing; and when they are full, 
are incrustated by the heat of the sun. At Mahim the Portugals 
have another complete church and house; the English a pretty 
custom-house and guard-house: the Moors have also a tomb in 
great veneration for a peon, or prophet, instrumental in quenching 
