The vegetables we found and conſidered as wholeſome eſculents, were beans and the molie tree, from whoſe leaves was made a very wholeſome tea, of an aromatic ſmell and pleaſant taſte: but it is much ſmaller than that deſcribed by Mr. Falkner, though it was from his deſcription of its leaf and fruit that I diſcovered it. The prickly pear, which is a very ſovereign antiſcorbutic, grows here alſo in great exuberance: it is of two kinds, white and red; but the former is conſidered as the moſt efficacious, and furniſhed us with the means of procuring many wholeſome, as well as palatable, pies and puddings. The animal food which we procured here, conſiſted of crows, owls, doves, black-birds, thruſhes, ſparrows, finches, and humming birds; beſides water fowl—ſuch as teal, ſand larks, and various other ſea birds, in great numbers. The fiſh we took were land-crabs, ſea-crabs, craw-fiſh, colche with ſemicircular mouths, limpets, oyſters, and other ſhell-fiſh[1]. To theſe may be added cod, rays, eels, and all thoſe that are uſually taken in tropical latitudes. The only novelty I found among the deep water fiſh, was one which bore ſome reſemblance to the parrot fiſh, with a large hump
- ↑ Of the ſpecies unknown before were the Large Toothed Nevite, the Ribbed Green Turbo, and the Buccinum Dentex.
