The cashew is a fruit as big as a pippin, pretty long, and bigger near the stem than at the other end, growing tapering.  The rind is smooth and thin, of a red and yellow colour.  The seed of this fruit grows at the end of it; it is of an olive colour shaped like a bean, and about the same bigness, but not altogether so flat.  The tree is as big as an apple-tree, with branches not thick, yet spreading off.  The boughs are gross, the leaves broad and round, and in substance pretty thick.  This fruit is soft and spongy when ripe, and so full of juice that in biting it the juice will run out on both sides of one’s mouth.  It is very pleasant, and gratefully rough on the tongue; and is accounted a very wholesome fruit.  This grows both in the East and West Indies, where I have seen and eaten of it.

The jennipah or jennipapah is a sort of fruit of the calabash or gourd kind.  It is about the bigness of a duck-egg, and somewhat of an oval shape; and is of a grey colour.  The shell is not altogether so thick nor hard as a calabash:  it is full of whitish pulp mixed with small flat seeds; and both pulp and seeds must be taken into the mouth, where sucking out the pulp you spit out seeds.  It is of a sharp and pleasing taste, and is very innocent.  The tree that bears it is much like an ash, straight-bodied, and of a good height; clean from limbs till near the top, where there branches forth a small head.  The rind is of a pale grey, and so is the fruit.  We used of this tree to make helves or handles for axes (for which it is very proper) in the Bay of Campeachy; where I have seen of them, and nowhere else but here.

Of their peculiar fruits, arisahs, mericasahs, petangos, petumbos, mungaroos, muckishaws, ingwas, otees, and musteran de ovas.

Besides these here are many sorts of fruits which I have not met with anywhere but here; as arisahs, mericasahs, petangos, etc.  Arisahs are an excellent fruit, not much bigger than a large cherry; shaped like a catherine-pear, being small at the stem, and swelling bigger towards the end.  They are of a greenish colour, and have small seeds as big as mustard seeds; they are somewhat tart, yet pleasant, and very wholesome, and may be eaten by sick people.

Mericasahs are an excellent fruit, of which there are 2 sorts; one growing on a small tree or shrub, which is counted the best; the other growing on a kind of shrub like a vine, which they plant about arbors to make a shade, having many broad leaves.  The fruit is as big as a small orange, round and green.  When they are ripe they are soft and fit to eat; full of white pulp mixed thick with little black seeds, and there is no separating one from the other till they are in your mouth; when you suck in the white pulp and spit out the stones.  They are tart, pleasant, and very wholesome.

Petangos are a small red fruit that grow also on small trees and are as big as cherries, but not so globular, having one flat side, and also 5 or 6 small protuberant ridges.  It is a very pleasant tart fruit, and has a pretty large flattish stone in the middle.