at the extremity of here and there one of which the fruit grows upon a stalk of its own about 9 or 10 inches long, slender and tough, and hanging down with its own weight.  A large tree of this sort does not bear usually above 20 or 30 apples, seldom more.  This fruit grows in most countries within the tropics, I have seen of them (though I omitted the description of them before) all over the West Indies, both continent and islands; as also in Brazil, and in the East Indies.

The papaw too is found in all these countries, though I have not hitherto described it.  It is a fruit about the bigness of a musk-melon, hollow as that is, and much resembling it in shape and colour, both outside and inside:  only in the middle, instead of flat kernels, which the melons have, these have a handful of small blackish seeds about the bigness of peppercorns; whose taste is also hot on the tongue somewhat like pepper.  The fruit itself is sweet, soft and luscious, when ripe; but while green it is hard and unsavoury:  though even then being boiled and eaten with salt-pork or beef, it serves instead of turnips and is as much esteemed.  The papaw-tree is about 10 or 12 foot high.  The body near the ground may be a foot and a half or 2 foot diameter; and it grows up tapering to the top.  It has no branches at all, but only large leaves growing immediately upon stalks from the body.  The leaves are of a roundish form and jagged about the edges, having their stalks or stumps longer or shorter as they grow near to or further from the top.  They begin to spring from out of the body of the tree at about 6 or 7 foot height from the ground, the trunk being bare below:  but above that the leaves grow thicker and larger still towards its top, where they are close and broad.  The fruit grows only among the leaves; and thickest among the thickest of them; insomuch that towards the top of the tree the papaws spring forth from its body as thick as they can stick one by another.  But then lower down where the leaves are thinner the fruit is larger, and of the size I have described:  and at the top where they are thick they are but small, and no bigger than ordinary turnips; yet tasted like the rest.

Their chief land animals are their bullocks, which are said to be many; though they ask us 20 dollars apiece for them; they have also horses, asses, and mules, deer, goats, hogs, and black-faced long-tailed monkeys.  Of fowls they have cocks and hens, ducks, guinea-hens, both tame and wild, parakeets, parrots, pigeons, turtledoves, herons, hawks, crab-catchers, galdens (a larger sort of crab-catchers) curlews, etc.  Their fish is the same as at Mayo and the rest of these islands, and for the most part these islands have the same beasts and birds also; but some of the isles have pasturage and employment for some particular beasts more than other; and the birds are encouraged, by woods for shelter, and maize and fruits for food, to flock to some of the islands (as to this of St. Jago) than to others.