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A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies

Note 17 — SIERRALEON.

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Papais, the Size of a moderate Melon, green as that, and full of Seeds, which thrown out, and the outside pared, is used with Meat, buttered and salted. They grow 20 or 30 Foot high. Bosman says, Male and Female (the Alcoran, that all Fruits grow so, p. 213.) the Male blossoming, but bearing no Fruit.

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