A VOYAGE TO 
1777. del* the names of jambu and eeevee ; the latter a kind of 
t plumb; and vaft numbers of fhaddocks, which, however, 
are found as often in a natural ftate, as planted. 
The roots are yams, of which are two forts; one black, 
and fo large, that it often weighs twenty or thirty pounds; 
the other white, and long, feldom weighing a pound; a 
large root, called kappe ; one not unlike our white pota¬ 
toes, called mawhaha ; the tarcfj or coccos of other places; 
and another, named jeejee. 
Belides vaft numbers of cocoa-nut trees, they have three 
other forts of palms, two of which are very fcarce. One of 
them is called beeoo\ which grows almoft as high as the 
cocoa-tree, has very large leaves plaited like a fan, and 
clutters or bunches of globular nuts, not larger than a fmall 
piftol ball, growing amongft the branches, with a very hard 
kernel, which is fometimes eat. The other is a kind of 
cabbage-tree, not diftinguifhable from the cocoa, but by 
being rather thicker, and by having its leaves more ragged. 
It has a cabbage three or four feet long ; at the top of which 
are the leaves, and at the bottom the fruit, which is fcarcely 
two inches long, refembling an oblong cocoa-nut, with an 
inftpid tenacious kernel, called, by the natives, neeocgoola , 
or red cocoa-nut, as it aftumes a reddifh caft when ripe. 
The third fort is called ongo ongo , and much commoner, be¬ 
ing generally found planted about their fiafbokas. It feldom 
grows higher than five feet, though fometimes to eight ; 
and has a vaft number of oval comprefled nuts, as large as 
a pippin, flicking immediately to the trunk, amongft the 
leaves, which are not eat. There is plenty of excellent 
fugar-cane, which is cultivated ; gourds ; bamboo ; turme¬ 
ric ; and a fpecies of fig, about the fize of a fmall cherry, 
called matte , which, though wild, is fometimes eat. But 
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