The voyages made by the sieur D.B. to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar and Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 and 72 (1897) (14773058565)

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Title: The voyages made by the sieur D.B. to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Du Bois, sieur Oliver, Samuel Pasfield, 1838-1907
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Publisher: London : Printed for D. Nutt by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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FRUITS OF THE ISLAND of Mascarenne. Bananas & Adams Figs. The tree is called Banana Tree The BananaTree or Fig-or Fig-tree of Adam. It dies every year & regener- ZVAi^ ates itself by its suckers. Thus each Tree only bears once. ^asvse°f£fth It has leaves of an ell & a half to two ells in length, Adam «uicd cover himself, rounded below, & a foot & a half to two feet broad. This ^iSdnS with, after Tree, wishing to put forth its fruit, throws out a large bud SS^rWd1.or red flower at the end of a single branch, to which that, besides, o these Bananas belongs all the fruit which it produces. These Bananas Ad^fcarrythe ° L Symbol of our are half a foot long, a little less in girth than the wrist of havlSTaS^s well markd a man. About a hundred ordinarily come on one stalk. S^^orSSI t«i ■!->• 11 i 1 1 or which one cuts The Figs are smaller although of the same nature & form. *«•»*•This fruit is good & sweet. Pine Apples, of which I dont make a par

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