Pineapples too are abundant.
They bathe regularly twice a day: their houses are of two storeys.

The women have rather compressed heads, but very pleasant countenances; and ancient Egyptian, round, wide-awake eyes.

Their numbers are prodigious; the country literally swarms with people, and a chief's town extends upwards of a mile.

But little of the primeval forest remains.

Many large pools of standing water have to be crossed, but markets are held every eight or ten miles from each other, and to these the people come from far, for the market is as great an institution as shopping is with the civilized.