_Lignum vitae,_ and divers other sorts, but none like any in Christendom, except those carried thither; the air very pleasant and healthful, but exceeding hot, yet so tempered with cool breaths, it seems very temperate to them, that are little used to it; the Trees being always green, the days and nights always very near equal in length, always Summer; only they have in their Seasons great Gusts and Rains, and sometimes a Hericano, which is an over grown, and a most violent storm. * * * * * {MN-1} _The Description of the Isle._ {MN-2} _The Springs; Temper; and Seasons._ {MN} In some of those Isles, are Cattel, Goats, and Hogs, but here none but what they must carry; _Guanes_ they have, which is a little harmless Beast, like a _Crocodile,_ or _Alligator,_ very fat and good Meat; she lays Eggs in the Sand, as doth the Land Crabs, which live here In abundance, like Conies in Boroughs, unless about _May,_ when they come down to the Sea side, to lay in the Sand, as the other; and all their Eggs are hatched by the heat of the Sun. * * * * * {MN} _A strange hatching of eggs for beasts._ {MN} From _May_ to _September,_ they have good store of Tortoises that come out of the Sea to lay their Eggs in the Sand, and are hatched as the other; they will lay half a peck at a time, and near a bushel ere they have done, and are round like Tenis-balls: This Fish is like Veal in taste, the Fat of a brownish colour, very good and wholsom. We seek them in the Nights, where we find them on shoar, we turn them upon their backs, till the next day we fetch them home, for they can never return themselves, being so hard, a Cart may go over them, and so big, one will suffice forty or fifty Men to dinner. Divers sorts of other Fish they have in abundance, and _Prawenes_ most great and excellent, but none will keep sweet scarce twelve hours. * * * * * {MN} _Fish._ {MN} The best and greatest is a _Passer Flaminga,_ which walking at her length, is as tall as a Man; _Pigeons_ and _Turtle Doves_ in abundance; some _Parrots,_ wild _Hawks,_ but divers other sorts of good Sea-fowl, whose Names we know not. * * * * * {MN} _Birds._ {MN} _Cassado_ is a Root planted in the Ground, of a wonderful Increase, and will make very good White-bread, but the Juce Rank Poyson, yet boyled, better than Wine; _Potatoes, Cabbages,_ and _Radish_ plenty. * * * * * {MN} _Roots._