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told me that she had to chop down her butter bean vines with
a hatchet; they grew to be several years old, & with a large,
woody stem -- All vegetables generally grow the year around --

Sunday Oct 29th

We slept delightfully last night -- Paid Madam Joe
$5.00 for her good care of us-; and left after a hearty and
an excellent breakfast -- A most magnificent day -- Nothing
could be more enchanting than the scenery and the weather-;
we went curling down the river with a fine breeze -- Stopped
at a place on the north side of the river where three date
trees are growing -; we landed to look at them-; they are
unfortunately all males -- so Dr Feay says -- so they bear no
fruit -- They are some 25 feet high-; very graceful and
tropical-; make a great rustling in the breeze -- We found
also the wild Olive a beautiful tree-; found plenty of wild
cotton stalks over 20 years old-; large as a tree-; trailing
aong a few feet from the ground and sending up tall immense
stalks, with blooms and cotton; but it is of no account --
boll worms & other insects ruin it before it matures --

We found plenty of prickly pears-, a dark crimson fruit,
with a supeabundance of red juice; rather insipid, but it
makes a beautiful & excellent jelly -- We embarked, and
landed again at Piney Point, on the north side of the river,
to look for the grape fruit, a fruit which the boat men
praised highly; but we could not find any-; it bears from a
large tree, whose leaf is thick & marked with prominent veins-;
& red markings-; Dr Feay gave the name of this tree as