The bazaar is composed of some miserable booths containing common provisions and a few cheap wares.
The neighbourhood of Joppa is exceedingly fertile.

Numerous large gardens, with trees laden with all kinds of tropical fruits, and guarded by impenetrable hedges of the Indian fig-tree, form a half- circle round the lower portion of the town.
The Indian fig-tree, which I here saw for the first time, has an odd appearance.

From its stem, which is very dwarfish, leaves a foot in length, six inches in breadth, and half an inch in thickness, shoot forth.

This tree seldom sends forth branches; the leaves grow one out of another, and at the extremity the fruit is formed.

Its length is about two or three inches.