Physick-nuts, as our seamen called them, are called here pineon; and
agnus castus is called here carrepat: these both grow here: so do
mendibees, a fruit like physick-nuts. They scorch them in a pan over the
fire before they eat them.

Here are also great plenty of cabbage-trees, and other fruits, which I
did not get information about and which I had not the opportunity of
seeing; because this was not the season, it being our spring, and
consequently their autumn, when their best fruits were gone, though some
were left. However I saw abundance of wild berries in the woods and
fields, but I could not learn their names or nature.

They have withal good plenty of ground fruit, as callavances, pineapples,
pumpkins, watermelons, musk-melons, cucumbers, and roots; as yams,
potatoes, cassava, etc. Garden herbs also good store; as cabbages,
turnips, onions, leeks, and abundance of other salading, and for the pot.
Drugs of several sorts, namely sassafras, snake-root, etc. Beside the
woods I mentioned for dyeing and other uses as fustick, speckled-wood,
etc.

I brought home with me from hence a good number of plants, dried between
the leaves of books; of some of the choicest of which that are not
spoiled I may give a specimen at the end of the book.

OF THEIR WILDFOWL, MACAWS, PARROTS, ETC.

Here are said to be great plenty and variety of wildfowl, namely yemmas,
macaws (which are called here jackoos, and are a larger sort of parrot,
and scarcer) parrots, parakeets, flamingos, carrion-crows,