Their fruits are large, and they have many cocoanuts, so that they were not understood to put much store by them.  But from these palms they make wine, vinegar, honey, and whey to give to the sick.  They eat the small palms raw and cooked.  The cocoanuts, when green, serve as cardos and for cream.  Ripe, they are nourishment as food and drink by land and sea.

When old, they yield oil for lighting, and a curative balsam.  The shells are good for cups and bottles.  The fibres furnish tow for caulking a ship; and to make cables, ropes, and ordinary string, the best for an arquebus.  Of the leaves they make sails for their canoes, and fine mats with which they cover their houses, built with trunks of the trees, which are straight and high.  From the wood they get planks, also lances and other weapons, and many things for ordinary use, all very durable.  From the grease they get the yalagala, used instead of tar.

In fine, it is a tree without necessity for cultivation, and bearing all the year round.

There are three kinds of plantains:  one, the best I have seen, pleasant to smell, tender and sweet.

There are many Obos, which is a fruit nearly the size and taste of a peach, on whose leaves may be reared silkworms, as is done in other parts.

There is a great abundance of a fruit which grows on tall trees, with large serrated leaves.  They are the size of ordinary melons, their shape nearly round, the skin delicate, the surface crossed into four parts, the pulp between yellow and white, with seven or eight pips.  When ripe it is very sweet, when green, it is eaten boiled or roasted.  It is much eaten, and is found wholesome.  The natives use it as ordinary food.  There are two kinds of almonds:  one with as much kernel as four nuts lengthways, the other in the shape of a triangle; its kernel is larger than three large ones of ours, and of an excellent taste.

There is a kind of nut, hard outside, and the inside in one piece without a division, almost like a chestnut; the taste nearly the same as the nuts of Europe.

Oranges grow without being planted.  With some the rind is very thick, with others delicate.  The natives do not eat them.  Some of our people said there were lemons.

There are many, and very large, sweet canes; red and green, very long, with jointed parts.  Sugar might be made from them.

Many and large trees, bearing a kind of nut, grew on the forest-covered slopes near the port.  They brought these nuts on board as green as they were on the branches.  Their leaves are not all green on one side, and on the other they turn to a yellowish grey.  Their length is a geme,* more or less, and in the widest part three fingers.  The nut contains two skins, between which grows what they call mace, like a small nut.  Its colour is orange.  The nut is rather large, and there are those who say that this is the best kind.  The natives make no use of it, and our people used to eat it green, and put it into the pots, and used the mace for saffron.