the clime is so hote as being now winter they can endure to
weare noe more then a shirt, a pare of linneing drawers and
linnen stockings on them, that time their corne was newly
reapt. they vse noe bede, but onely hamachoes which are
curious blankets of fine cotton neatly wrought and painted on
the outside, and hung vp a yard or lesse from ground by a
rope at each end fastned to two posts when they goe to rest
and on the day time taken away, and carried about with them
when they trauaile, here are many things as well pfitable for
trade, as full of content to behold, their trade is chiefely in
corne and cotton, which cotton it delighted vs much to see
grow vpon trees in such plentie, the cotton tree is not much
higher then a barbara bush, but more treelike, it beares a
little bude in bignesse like a wallnut, which at full time
opening in the middle into fower quarter, their appeares a
knot of cotton white as snow, with six seede in the middle
of the bignesse of vetches which with an inuention of wheele
they take out and soe keep it till the merchants fetch it from
them: here is a cabbage growes on a tree 180 foot high to be
eaten raw or boiled, the stalke of it is for one yard from top
good meat, to be eaten raw with pepper, it is in tast like the
Spanish Cardo but sweeter, the tree beares but one yearely,
and in wood is onely a leguminous substance: here are also
foxeberrie trees, high as ash the berrie is of bignesse of a
hazell nut with an vnctuous skin or couer which washeth
scoureth and laddereth passing well, but is (as they say)
somewhat too strong for fine linnen, of these I found and
carried a number to Maryland, and haue them now in the
ground: there is another tree called palm Christi, with a
spongious stalke, it beares a great thorny cluster of ash-
coloured seede speckled with blacke whereof is made an
excellent oyle Oranges, lemmons, limes, pomegranade, peaches