A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
There is of this kinde two sorts, the one so like a childs Corall,
as not to be discerned at the distance of two paces; a crimson and
scarlet mixt, the fruit about three inches long, and shines more
then the best polisht Corall. The other, of the same colour, and
glistering as much, but shap’t like a large button of a Cloak; both
of one and the same quality; both so violently strong, as when we
break but the skin, it sends out such a vapour into our lungs; as we
fall all a coughing; which lasts a quarter of an hour after the fruit
is removed; but, as long as we are garbling it, we never give over.
This Spice the Spaniards love, and will have it in all their meat,
that they intend to have picant; for a greater _Hough goo_ is not in
the World. Garlick is faint and cool to it. It growes on a little
shrub, no bigger then a Goosbery-bush.
[Sidenote: _Cucumber._]
Having inflam’d this leafe with a burning heat, it is fit to apply a
Cooler, lest it fall on fire; and that is such a one, as is cold in
the third degree, a Cucumber; of which kind we have excellent good,
from the beginning of _November_ to the end of _February_; but after
that, the weather growes too hot. They serve as Sallets cold, with
Oyle, Vinegar, and Pepper; and hot, being stewed, or fryed, of which
we make Sawce for Mutton, Pork, Turkeyes, or Muscovia Ducks. Geese
I never saw but two in the Iland, and those were at the Governours
house.
[Sidenote: _Millons._]
Millons we have likewise for those foure months; but before or after,
the weather is too hot. They are for the most part larger than here
in _England_. I have seen them cut four inches thick; they eat
moister then here they do, which makes them the lesse wholsome. We
take no other care (after the seeds are put into the ground) but to
weed them. I have seen of them sixteen inches long.
[Sidenote: _Water-Millon._]
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