They have four sorts of corn in Longo. The first is called _Masanga_,[196] and it groweth upon a straw as big as a reed, and hath an ear a foot long, and is like hempseed. The second is called _Masembala_.[197] This is of great increase, for of one kernel there springs four or five canes, which are ten foot high, and they bear half a pint of corn apiece. This grain is as big as tares, and very good. Thirdly, they have another that groweth low like grass, and is very like mustard-seed: and this is the best.[198] They have also the great Guinea wheat, which they call _Mas-impoto_.[199] This is the least esteemed. [_Ground-nuts._] They have very good Peason [peas], somewhat bigger than ours, but they grow not as ours do; for the pods grow on the roots, underneath the ground, and by their leaves they know when they be ripe.[200] They have another kind of Peason, which they call _Wando_.[201] This is a little tree, and the first year that it is planted it beareth no fruit; but after, it beareth fruit three years, and then it is cut down.[202] [_Plantains, or Bananas._] Their plantain trees bear fruit but once, and then are cut down, and out of the root thereof spring three or four young trees. [_Bees and the Baobab._] They have great store of honey, which hangeth in the _Elicondy_ trees.[203] They gather it with a hollow piece of wood, or chest, which they hang in the top of the tree, and once a year it is full, by smoke rewarding the laborious creatures with robbery, exile, death. [Purchas here adds in the margin, “out of Battell’s own reports”:— This _Alicunde_ or _Elicondi_ tree is very tall and exceeding great, some as big as twelve men can fathom, spreading like an oak. Some of them are hollow, and from the liberal skies receive such plenty of water, that they are hospitable entertainers of thousands in this thirsty region. Once have I known three or four thousand remain at one of these trees, and thence receiving all their watery provision for four and twenty hours, and yet not empty. The negroes climbed up with pegs of hardwood (which that softer easily receiveth, the smoothness not admitting other climbing), and I think that some one tree hold forty tuns of water. This tree affords not less bountiful hospitality to the back than belly, yielding (as her belly to their bellies, so) her back to their backs; excepting that this is better from the younger trees, whose tenderer backs being more seasonable for discipline, are so soundly beaten (for man’s fault, whence came the first nakedness), whereby one fathom cut from the tree is extended into twenty, and is presently fit for wearing, though not so fine as the _Iuzanda_[204] tree yields. This tree yields excellent cloth from the inner bark thereof by like beating.] [_Palm Trees._]