Were I to describe all the strange fruits that are produced in this country, it would require a large volume for that alone; as they not only have many quite different from ours in form, taste, and flavour, but even those kinds which are the same with ours, differ essentially in many particulars.  Natural philosophers may consider how it should so happen that things of the same kind become so essentially different, according to the changes of soil and climate; by which some fruits and seeds, by transplantation to better soil, become more perfect in their kind, as larger, fairer, sweeter, and more fruitful; while others are improved by a worse soil and colder region.  This diversity may not only be seen in plants and herbs, but also in beasts, and even in man.  It is strange to observe how very differently some trees bear their fruits and seeds, some in one part of the tree and some in other parts.  At Calicut there is a fruit named Jaceros, which grows on a tree about the size of our pear trees.  The fruit is about two spans and a half long, and as thick as the thigh of a man, growing out of the body of the tree under the branches, some in the middle of the tree and others lower down.  The colour of this fruit is green, and its form and appearance resembles a pine apple, but with smaller grains or knobs.  When ripe it is black, and is gathered in December.  It has the taste of a pepon with a flavour of musk, and in eating seems to give various pleasant tastes, sometimes resembling a peach, sometimes like a pomegranate, and leaves a rich sweet in the month like new honeycombs.  Under the skin it has a pulp like that of a peach, and within that are other fruits like soft chesnuts, which when roasted eat much like them.  This is certainly one of the finest fruits I ever met with.  There is another fruit called Apolanda, which is worthy of being mentioned.  The tree grows to the height of a man, having not above four or five leaves hanging from certain slips, each leaf being so large that it is sufficient to cover a man entirely from rain or the heat of the sun.  In the middle of each leaf rises a stalk like that of a bean, which produces flowers followed by fruit a span long, and as thick as a mans arm.  These fruits are gathered unripe, as they become ripe in keeping.  Every slip bears about two hundred fruits in a cluster.  They are of a yellow colour with a very thin skin, and are most delicate eating, and very wholesome.  There are three kinds of this fruit, one of which is not so pleasant or so much esteemed as the others.  This tree bears fruit only once and then dies; but there rise from the ground all about the root fifty or sixty young slips which renew the life of the parent tree.  The gardeners transplant these to other places, and in one year they produce fruit This fruit is to be had in great abundance, almost the whole year, and are so cheap that twenty of them may be had for a penny.  This country produces innumerable flowers of great beauty and most pleasant flavour, all the year round, and especially roses, both red, white, and yellow.