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.
[* The space between the end of the thumb and the end of the forefinger, both stretched out.] On the beach a fruit was found like a pine apple.

There were other fruits, like figs, filberts, and _albaricoques_,* which were eaten.
Others were seen, but it was not known what fruits they were, nor what others grew in that land.

To give a.

complete account of them and other things, it is necessary to be a year in the country, and to travel over much ground.
[* Apricots.] As regards vegetables, I* only knew amaranth, purslane, and calabashes.
[* It is Belmonte, Queiroz's secretary, who is describing the bay and its products .-- G.