Two of his discoveries, especially, were most valuable acquisitions,--the guajaraba, on the large leaf of which one may write with a pointed instrument, and the fruit of which, a sort of grape, is very good to eat; also the date-palm, every part of which is so useful, that we were truly thankful to Heaven, and our dear boys, for the discovery.

Whilst young, the trunk contains a sort of _marrow_, very delicious.

The date-palm is crowned by a head, formed of from forty to eighty leafy branches, which spread round the top.

The dates are particularly good about half-dried; and my wife immediately began to preserve them.

My sons could only bring the fruit now, but we purposed to transplant some of the trees themselves near our abode.