The twigs are slender and tough; and so is the stem
of the fruit. This fruit grows also both in the East and West Indies.
The cashew is a fruit as big as a pippin, pretty long, and bigger near
the stem than at the other end, growing tapering. The rind is smooth and
thin, of a red and yellow colour. The seed of this fruit grows at the end
of it; it is of an olive colour shaped like a bean, and about the same
bigness, but not altogether so flat. The tree is as big as an apple-tree,
with branches not thick, yet spreading off. The boughs are gross, the
leaves broad and round, and in substance pretty thick. This fruit is soft
and spongy when ripe, and so full of juice that in biting it the juice
will run out on both sides of one's mouth. It is very pleasant, and
gratefully rough on the tongue; and is accounted a very wholesome fruit.
This grows both in the East and West Indies, where I have seen and eaten
of it.
The jennipah or jennipapah is a sort of fruit of the calabash or gourd
kind. It is about the bigness of a duck-egg, and somewhat of an oval
shape; and is of a grey colour. The shell is not altogether so thick nor
hard as a calabash: it is full of whitish pulp mixed with small flat
seeds; and both pulp and seeds must be taken into the mouth, where
sucking out the pulp you spit out seeds.
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