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large clusters [sketch of a banana bunch] one bunch is a nice load to carry the pod is like a large broad bean but inside is a soft pulp which is very sweet & sickly taste with it. The yams are somewhat like parsnips in colour long & narrow. These are roots dug up same as potatoes. Bananas are fruit. Sugar-cane is very nice not so sickly as I expected to find them. There were little bazaars where fancy baskets & fans were sold. Wicker chairs and birds in cages such as parrots paroquets Java sparrows Love birds & ect. If a portugese settlement Englishmen show superiority by making beasts of themselves and the inhabitants seem to know it if considering the quantity of English Scotch Irish whiskey & Gin they had to view which more than one of our passengers imbibed to freely. The Maderia was in full swing & those