The meals that people devour here almost revolt me.

They eat like cormorants and drink like dry ground; but at my table I am careful, save with the bottle.

This is a land of wonderful fruits, and I eat in quantities pineapple, tamarind, papaw, guava, sweet-sop, star-apple, granadilla, hog-plum, Spanish-gooseberry, and pindal-nut.

These are native, but there are also the orange, lemon, lime, shaddock, melon, fig, pomegranate, cinnamon, and mango, brought chiefly from the Spanish lands of South America.

The fruit-market here is good, Heaven knows, and I have my run of it.