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.

FOGO.

St. Jago Road is one of the worst that I have been in. There is not clean
ground enough for above three ships; and those also must lie very near
each other. One even of these must lie close to the shore, with a
land-fast there: and that is the best for a small ship. I should not have
come in here if I had not been told that it was a good secure place; but
I found it so much otherways that I was in pain to be gone. Captain
Barefoot, who came to an anchor while I was here, in foul ground, lost