They grow on high trees.
Otee is a fruit as big as a large coconut. It hath a husk on the outside,
and a large stone within, and is accounted a very fine fruit.
Musteran-de-ovas are a round fruit as big as large hazelnuts, covered
with thin brittle shells of a blackish colour: they have a small stone in
the middle, enclosed within a black pulpy substance, which is of a
pleasant taste. The outside shell is chewed with the fruit, and spit out
with the stone, when the pulp is sucked from them. The tree that bears
this fruit is tall, large, and very hard wood. I have not seen any of
these five last-named fruits, but had them thus described to me by an
Irish inhabitant of Bahia; though as to this last I am apt to believe I
may have both seen and eaten of them in Achin in Sumatra.
OF THE PALMBERRIES, PHYSICK-NUTS, MENDIBEES, ETC. AND THEIR ROOTS AND
HERBS, ETC.
Palm-berries (called here dendees) grow plentifully about Bahia; the
largest are as big as walnuts; they grow in bunches on the top of the
body of the tree, among the roots of the branches or leaves, as all
fruits of the palm kind do.
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