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THE FEDERAL UNION.
JiKIN G.
EDITOR.
MIUEDQEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAT A, 1831.
VOLUME 1, KUMBEH
43.
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„ THE FEDERAL UNION is published
tLJ ri - B . a at i’MiiEED i lars (> r annum, in ad-
** er y , r foOR if * * I a *d before; the end of tlwyear..
T X " C 0&SL- 19 0“ Wiy* 6 ■ street, opposite McCombsTa-
\DVERriseMKNts published at the usual cates.
., -jo nic.i i/itaiion by tite Clerks nl the Courts of Or-
din-irv that applicaii-j* has been in ide for Letters of Ad
ministration. mjst t»e pubUshed Thirty oats at least.
Vntice f»y Executors and Xdinimsliuors lor D btors
and CieJUors to render in their accounts must be publish
ed 'IS >'EGK9-
Sii-9 of na*roc9 by Executors and Administrators must
be advertised Sixty DATs before the day of sale.
Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate
and intestate estates'b- Executors and Administration*
most be advertised Forty days. No sale from day to
day is valid, unless so expressed in the advertisement.
Appiicauin* by Executors. Administrators, and Guar*
diaot, to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land
must be published four months.
Applic ttions for Foreclosure of Mortgages on Real Es
tate must be advertised once a month fi>r six months.
Sales of Real Estate by Executors, Administrators and
Guardians must be pubhalied sixtt days before the day
of sale. These sales must be made at the Court House
tfoor between the hours of 10 in the morning and 4 in the
afternoon.
Ordersuf Courtof Ordinary, (accompaniedwith aco-
of her tribe,) was busted in making cakes of
the cassava root, and preparing the family
meal, against the return of her husband, who
was fishtog at some distance op the river; her
eldest child, about five or six years old, assisted
her; and from time to time, while thus employ
ed, the mother turned her eyes, beaming with
fond affection, upon the playful gambols of two
little infants, who, being just able to crawl a-
lone, were rolling together on the ground,
laughing and crowing with all their might.
Their food being nearly prepared, the Indian
woman looked towards the river, impatient for
the return of ber husband. But her bright
dark eyes swimming with eagerness and affec-
tionate solicitude, become fixed and glazed
with terror when, instead of him she so fond-
lv expected, she beheld the attendants of
Father Gomez, creeping stealthily along the
side of the thicket towards her cabiD# Instant
ly aware of her danger (for the nature and ob
ject of these incursions were the dread of all
the country round,) she uttered a piercing
py >fThe bund, or agreement) to make title* to Land, Jshriek, snatched up her infants in her arms, and.
UVixl oe adv&rtisrd Three months al least.
Shct ifF x sates under •iX'-cutb'i's regularly granted by
the courts, must be advertised Thirty days.
Sheriff's sates inder mortgage xecutions must be»d-
vertUed Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sheriff’s sales of perishable property under orderof
Gourt must be advartised generally Ten days-
\i! (laueiu far A J-ertisenienta will be punctually at
tended to.
*«,* All Letter* tirected tutheofilcc, or the Editor,
mast S ■ pmt pa 4 entitle them to attention.
FO.I&TttY.
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(From liic Irishman )
A WOMAN’S HEART.
BY MARY ANN BROWNS.
***Alas! that man should ever win,
So street a shrine to shame and sin,
As wcraan'i heart.”—L. E. L.
Say what Is woman’s heart? A thing
Where all the deepest feelings spring;
A harp whose tender chorus reply
Unto the touch in harmony;
A r^ord iviuse fairy scenes are fraught
,i v V it's till the colour’d dreams of thought)
A 1)ark that still will b'uidly move
\Tpan the treachorous setts of love.
VV i ii u its lore? A careless stream,
A cVaogHess star, an endless dream,
A smiling flower liiat will not die,
l '\ beauty and a mystery
JL storms as light as April shower.r,
li.s jays as hrigtd as April flowers ;
jis h ,p«.» as sisect as summer air
And aailt as wnit- r its despair.
Wlnt ar* i s hopes? Rainbows that tbro’fif
A radiant !i?!ii where’er they go,
Smiling when Heaven is overcast,
Vat melting into storms at last;
Jlr igi't clieat- 1 that come with siren tvord3,
Jj g'uling it, like summer’s birds,
Tint stay while nature round them bloomy,
Hit fl e a way when winter comes.
U ii it is its h it.? A pass ng frown,
A single weed mid blossoms sown,
"That cannot flanrish there for long ;
A ! i trsh note in an angel's song ;
A s.imin *r cloud, that all tha while
Is lightened by a sun beam’s smile;
A passion th it scarce hath a part
Amidst die gems of woman’s heart.
Am! wb d is its despair? A deep
Fever, that leaves no tears to weep ;
A ivo dial works with client power,
As canker worms destroy a flowery
A vij'.r that shews not its rvakes,
l the heart it preys ori breaks';
A inisi that robs a star of light,
And wraps it up in darkest night.
Then wh.it is woman’s Heart? A tiling
Where all the deepest feelings spring ;
A harp whose tender chords reply
Unto the touch in harmony ; j
A 'vor I whose fairv scenes are fraught^
With al! the colored dreams of though:,
A hark that still will blindly move
Ur-on the treacherous sens of lovCj
miscellaneous.
THE INDIAN MOTHER.
BY MKS- JAMESON
We extract the tender ami affecting recital
which follows, from the Amulet, lor 1831. It
-illustrates the method by which the Spanish
•Catholics were wont to convert the natives u!
South America Father Gomez is the iron-
hearted missionary who had charge of their
converting machinery:—Star 4r Index
Among the passions and vices which father
Gomez had brought from his cell in the convent
of Augustara to spread contamination and op
pression through his new domain, were pndr &
.avarice; and both ww-re interested m increasing
the number of his converts, or rather, of his
slaves. In spite of tho wise and humane law ol
Charles the Third, prohibiting the conversion of
the Indian natives by force, Gomez, like others
of his brethren in the more distant missions, of
ten accomplished his purpose by direct violence.
He was accustomed to go, with a party of his
people, and lie in wait near the hordes of nnre-
Claimed Indians; when the men were absent) he
•vould forcibly seize on the women and chil--
dren, bind them, and bring them off in triumph
to his own village. There, being baptized, and
taught to make the sign of the cross they were
called Christians, but in reality were slaves.
In general, the women thus detained, pined a.
way and died; but the children became accus
tomed to their new mode of life, forgot their
woods, and paid to their Christian master a
williug and blind obedience ; thus in time they
became tho oppressors of their own people.
• Father Gomez called these incursions, la
Zpnquito t spiritual—*he conquest of souls.
One day he set off on an expedition of this
nature attended by twelve armed Indians; and
after rowing some leagues up the river Guavi-
are, which flows Into the river Orinoco, they
perceived, through an opening in the trees,
and at a little distance from the shore, an Indi
an hot. It is the custom of these people to
live isolated in families; and so strong is their
passion for solitude, that when collected into
villages they frequently build themselves a lit
tle cabin at a distance from their usual resi
dence, and retire to it, at certain seasons, for
days together. Tho cabin of which I speak
was one of these solitary villas—if I may so
apply the word. Within this hut a young wo
nan (Whom I shall call Gqz&be, from the name
calling the other to follow, rushed from the hut
towards the forest. As she had considerably
the start of hei pursuers, she would probably
have escaped, and have bidden herself effec
tually in its tangled depths, if her precious bur
then had not impeded her flight; but thus en
cumbered, she was easily overtaken. Her eld
est child, fleet of foot and wily as the young
jaguar, escaped, to carry to the wretched fath
er the news of his bereavement, and neither
father nor child was ever more beheld in their
former haunts.
Meantime, the Indians seized upon Guahiba
-•-bound her, tied her,two children together,
and dragged them down to the river, where
Father Gomez was sitting in his canoe, wait
ing the issue of the expedition. At the sight
of the captives his eyes sparkled with a cruel
triumph; he thanked his patron saint that three
more sonls were added (o his community; and
i then heedless of the tears of the mother, and
J the cries of her children, he commanded his
followers to row back with all speed to San
Fernando
There Guahiba and her infants were placed
in a hut Under the guard of two Indians; som
food was given to her, which she at first re
fused, but aftenvards, as if «n reflection, ac
cepted. A young Indian girl was then gent to
her—a captive convert of her own tribe, who
had not yet quite forgotten her native language
She tried to make Guahiba compreheud that
in this village she and her children must re
main during the rest of their lives, in order
that they might go to heaven after they were
dead Guahiba listened, but understood noth
ing of what was addressed to her; nor could
she be made to conceive for what purpose she
w«9 torn from her husband and her home, nor
why she was to dwell for the remainder ofh®^
i.fo ~ people, and against ner
will. During that night she remained tranquil
watching over her infants as they slumbered
by her side; but the moment the dawn appear
ed, she took them in her arms and ran off lo
•he woods. She was immediately brought
hack; but no sooner were the eyes of her
keepers turned from her, than she snatched up
h*>r children, and again fled;—again—and a-
gehi! At every new attempt she was punish-
( J with more and more severity; she was kept
fiom food, and at length repeatedly and cruel
tv beaten. In vain!—apparently she did not
even understand why she was thus treated;
and one instinctive idea alone, the desire of
escape, seemed to possess her mind, and gov
ern all her movements. If her oppressor 3 on
ly turned from her, or looked another way for
an instant, she invariably caught up her chil
dren, and ran off towards the forest. Father
Gomez was at length wearied by what he term
ed her “blind obstinacy;” and, as the only
means of securing all three, he took measures
io separate the mother from her children, and
resolved to convey Guahiba to a distant mis*
sion, whence she should never find her wgg
back either to them or to her home. In pur-
Miance of this plan, poor Guahiba, with her
J’ands tied behind her, was placed in the bow
of a canoe. Father Gomez seated himsell at
the helm, and they rowed away.
The granite rocks which border the river,
and extend far into the contiguous woods, as
sume strange, fantastic shapes; and are cover
ed with a black incrustation, or deposit, which,
contrasted with the snow-white loam of the
waves breaking on them below, and the pale
lichens ivhich spring from their crevices, and
creep along their surface above, give these
shores an aspect perfectly iuneral Between
these melancholy rocks—so high and so steep
that a landing place seldom occurn-d for
leagues together—the canoe of Father Gomez
slowly glided, though urged against the stream
by eight robust Indians
The unhappy Guahiba sat at firrt pertectly
unmoved, and apparently amazed and stunned
by her situation; she did not comprehend what
they were going to do with her; but after a
while she looked up towards the sun, then
down upon the stream, and perceiving, by the
direction of the one and the censure of the oth
er, that every stroke of the oar carried her
farther and farther from her beloved and help
less children, her husband and her native home,
her countenance was seen to change and as
sume a fearful expression. As the possibility
of escape, in her present situation, had never
once occurred to her captors, she had been ve
ry slightly and careles?’y bound. She watched
opportunity, burst the withs on her arms,
with a sudden effort flung herself overboard,
and dived under the waves; but in another
moment she rose again at a considerable dis
tance, and swam to the shore, Fho current,
being rapid and strong, carried her down to
the base of a dark granite rock which project
ed into the stream; she climed it with fearless
agility, stood for an instant on its summit,
looking down upon her tyrants, then pluoged
into the forest, and was lost to sight
Father Gomez, beholding his victim thus
unexpectedly escape bin*, sat mute and thun
derstruck for come moments, unable to give
utterance to the extremity of bn rage and as
tonishment. When, at length, fee found voice
ho commanded bis Indians to pnH with all their
might to the shore; then to pursue Che poor
fugitive, and bring her back to him, dead or
alive.
Guahiba, meantime, while strength remain
ed to break her way through the tangled wil
derness, continued her flight; but, soon ex
hausted and breathless with the violence of
her exertioas r she was obliged to relax in her
efforts, and at length sunk down at the foot of
a huge laurel tree, where she concealed her
self, as well as she might, among the long, in
terwoven grass. There, crouching and trem
bling in her lair, she heard the voices of her
persecutors hallooing to each other through
the thicket. She would probably have escap
ed, but for a large mastiff which the IndiaDS
had with them, and which scented her out in
her hiding place. The moment she heard the
dreadful animal snufling the air, and tearing his
way through tho grass, she knew she was lost.
The Indians came up. She attempted no vain
resistance: but. with a sullen passiveness, suf
fered herself to be seized and dragged to the
shore *
When tho merciless pnesl beheld her, he
.determined to inflict on her such discipline as
he thought would banish her children from her
memory, and cure her forever of her passion
for escaping He ordered her to be stretched
upon that granite rock where she had landed
tr*m the canoe, on the summit of which she
had stood, as if exulting in her flight,—the Rock
of the Mother,—as it has ever since been de
nominated—and there flogged till she could
scarcely move or speak She was then bound
more securely, placed in the canoe, and carri
ed to Javila, the seat of a mission far up the
river.
“It was near sunset when they arrived at
this village, and the inhabitants were prepar-
ing to go to rest. Guahiba was deposited for
the night in a large barnlike building, which
served as a place of worship, a public maga-
z ne, and, occasionally, as a barrack. Father
Gomez ordered two or three Indians or Javita
io keep guard over her alternately, relieving
each other through the night; and then went-
io repose hirnselt after the fatigues of his voy
age. As the wretched captive neither resist,
n ” r *mp! ooed, Father Gomez flattered
himself that she was now reduced to submit*
s ., L:iiie cuiild ho fathom the bosom of this
food mother! He mistook for stupor, or re*
signation, the calmness of a fixed resolve. In
absence, in bonds, and in torture, her heart
throbbed with hut one feeling; one thought h.
lone possessed her whole soul:—her children—
her children—and still her childreol
Auiong the Jn/ltano inwi"'*- 1 .'- —*- L 1
v»„r, a jJxiiu, about eighteen or nineteen years
of age, who, perceiving that her arms were
miserably bruised by the stripes she had re
ceived, and that she suffered the most aGute
agony from the savage tightness with which
the cords were drawn, let fall an exclamation nt
pity iu the language of her tribe. QOick she
seized the moment of f eling. and addressed
him as one of her people.
‘Guahiba,’ she said, in a whispered lone,
thou speakest my language, and doubtless thou
art my brother! Wilt thou see me perish with,
out pity, O son of my people? Ah. cut these
-bonds which enter into my flesht 1 faint with
paint I die!’
The young man heard, and, as if terrified,
removed a few paces from her, and kept si
lence. Afterwards when his companions were
out of sight, and he was left alone to watch
he approached, and said, ‘Guahibai-i^our fath
ers were the same, and I may not see thee die;
but if I cut these bonds white roan will flog
me: will thou be content if I loosen them
and give thee easel' And, as he spoke, he
stooped and loosened the thongs on her wrists
and arms; she smiled upon him languidly, and
appeared satisfied
Night was now coming on. Guahiba drop
ped her head on her bosom and closed her
eyes, as if exhausted by weariness. The
voung Indian, believing that she slept, after
some hesitation laid himself down on his mat.
His companions were already slumbering in
the porch af the building, and all was still.
Then Guahiba raised her bead. It was
night—dark night—without moon or star.—
There was no sound, except the breathing of
the sleepers arouod her, and tho humming of
tho musquitoes. She listened for some time
with her whole soul; but all was silence.—She
then gnawed the loosened thongs asunder with
her teeth. Her hands, once free, she released
her feet; aod when the morning came she bad
disappeared Search was made for her in
every direction«l>ut in vain; and Father Go
mez, baffled and wrathful, returned to his vil
lage.
The distance between Javita and San Fer
nando where Guahiba had left her infants, 19
25 leagues in a straight line. A fearful wil
derness of gigantic forest trees, and interming
ling underwood, separated these two missions,
a savage and awful solitude, which, probably,
si(|pe the beginning of the world, had never
been trodden by human foot All communi
cation was carried on by the river; and there
lived not a man, whether Indian or European,
bold enough to have attempted the route along
the shore. It was the commencement of the
rainy season. The sky, obscared by clouds,
seldom revealed (he sun ky day; and neither
moon nor gleam of twinkling star by mght.--
The rivers bad overflowed, aud the lowlands
were inundated. There was no visible objetf
to direct the travellers; no shelter, no defence,
no aid, no guide. Was it Providence—was
it the strong instinct of maternal lovfe, which
led this courageous woman through the depths
of the pathless woods-—where rivulets, swol*
len to torrents by the rains, intercepted her at
every step; where the thorny lianas, twining
from tree to tree, opposed aa almost impene
trable barrier: where the mosquitoes hong in
clouds upon her path; where the jaguar and
fbe alligator larked to devour her; where the
rattlesnake and the water serpent lay coiled!
up in the damp grass, ready to spring at ber;
where she had no food to support her exhaust
ed frame, but a few berries, and the large black
ants which build their nests on the trees?—
How directed—how sustained—cannot be told:
the poor woman herself could not tell. All
that can be known with any certainty is, that
the fourth rising sun beheld her nt San Fernan
do; a wild, and wasted, and fearful object; her
feet swelled and hleediug—her hands lorn—
ber body covered with wounds, and emaciated
with famine aud fatigue—but once more near
her children!
For several hours she hovered round the
hut in which she had left them, gazing on it
Irom a distance with longing eyes and a sick
heart, without daring to advance: at length
she perceived that all the inhabitants had quit
ted their cottages to attend vespers; then she
stole from the thicket and approached) with
taint and timid stops, the spot which contained
her heart’s treasures. She entered, and found
her iniants left alone, and playing together on
a mat: they screamed at her appearance, so
changed was she by suffering: but when she
called them by name, they knew ber tender
voice and stretched out their little arms to
wards her. In that moment the mother forgot
all she had endured*—all her anguish, all her
fears, every thing on earth, but the objects
which blessed her eyes. She sat down be
tween her children—9he took them on her
knees—she clasped them in an agony of fond
ness to her bosom*—she covered them with
kisses—she shed torrents of tears on their lit
tle heads, as she hugged them to her. Bud
denly she remembered where 6he was, and
trby she was ffcere: new terrors seized her; she
rose up hastily, and, with her babies iu her
arms, she staggered out of the cabin—fainting,
stumbling, and almost blind with the loss of
blood and inanition. She tried to reach" the
woods, but too feeble to sustain her burthen,
which yet she would not relinquish, her limbs
trembled, and sank beneath. At this moment
an Indian, who was watching the public oven,
perceived her. He gave the alarm by ringing
the bell, and the people rushed forth, gather
ing round Guahiba with fright and astonish
ment. They gazed upon her as if upon an ap
parition till her sobs, and imploring looks, and
trembling and wounded limbs, convinced them
that she yet lived, though apparently nigh to
death. They looked upon her in silence, and
then at each other; their savage bosoms were
touched with commiseration for her sad plight,
and with admiration, and even awe, at this un
exampled heroism of maternal love.
While they hesitated, aod none seemed wil-
her, J*atKer'txomee, who had just landed on his
r- turn from Javita, approached in haste, and
commanded them to be separated Guahiba
clasped ber children closer to her breast, and
• he I.idians shrunk back.
“Whal!” thundered the monk, "willyesof
for this woman to steal two precious souls from
heaven?—Two members from our commu
nity ? See ye uot, that while she is suffer
fed to approach them, there is no salvation for
either mother or children? Part them, and in
stantly!”
The Indians, accustomed to his ascendency,
and terrified at his voice, tore the children of
Guahiba once more from her feeble arms; She
uttered no word nor cry, but sunk in a swoon
upon the earth.
While in this state. Father Gomez, with a
cruel mercy, ordered her wounds to be care
fully dressed; her arms and legs wore-swathed
with cotton bandages; she was then placed in a
canoe, A conveved to a mission far, far off, on
the river Esmeralder, beyond the Upper Orino
co. She continued in a state of exhaustion and
torpor during the voyage; but after being taken
out of the boat, and earned inland, restoratives
brought her back to life, and to a sense of her
situation. When she perceived, as reason and
consciousness returned, that she was in a
strange place, unknowing how she was brought
there—among a tribe vho spoke a language
different from any she bad ever heard before,
from whom, therefore, according to Indian pre
judices, she could hope nor aid nor pity;—
when she recollected that she was far from her
beloved children;—when she saw no means of
discovering the bearing or the distance of their
abode—no clue to guide her back to it: then,
and only then, did the mothers heart yield to
utter despair 1—and thenceforth refusing to
speak or to move, and obstinately rejecting all
nourishment, thus she died.
The boatmen, on the river Atabapo, sus
pends his oar with a sigh as he passes the
ROCK OF THE MOTHER. He points it
out to the traveller, and weeps as he relates
the t^le of her suffering and her fate. Ages
hence, when those solitary regions have be
come the seat of civilization, of power, and in
telligence; when the pathless wilds which poor
Guahiba traversed in her anguish, are replaced
by populous cities, and smiling garden?, ^’pas
tures, and waving harvests,—still that dark
rock shall stand, frowning o’er the stream; tra
dition aud history shall preserve its name and
fame; and when the pyramids, those vast, vain
monuments to human pride, have passed away,
it 3hal! endure, to carry down to the end of the
world the memory of the Indian Mother.
From thr Macon Telegraph.
LETTER FROM CUBA.
Matanzas, Island of Cuba, Feb. 183!.
Dear Sir,—As I intimated in one of my ear
ly letters, I have been collecting materials for
a brief description of some of the fruit's of this
delightful Island, and now present you the re
sult.
1st. Of the orange there are several varie
ties, alf too well known in the United Staten to
require a description. t '
8d* Ther pine apple i? equally trbli known:
the tree in small, the stem scarcely grows a*
bove the surface, each plant producing but onS
fruit, and this grows directly upwards from the
top oft he stem.
-3*1. The cocoa nut tree grows sometimes to
the heigbth of fifiy feet or more. The only
foliage it has, caps the top of the trunk: ibe
fruit bangs in a cluster at the top.
4th. The lim«* tree grows to a considerable
beighth. It is also frequently used as hedger,
and from its beautiful bright green foliage in
much admired for ornamental grounds-it bears
fruit in great abundance.
5th. The lemon tree is less beautiful; it hr
usually but a bush, it bears fruit iu less abun*
dance.
6th The shaddock is a Fage fruit of a pare
yellow color: it is of the orange family, in ttze
as large as a goodly sized cocoa nut with the
outward busb taken off; its taste is not unptea*
sant but the orange is always preferred
8lh. Eve’s apple or the forbidden fruit, is
another variety, nearly as targe as a shaddock:
it is not very palatable, bat is always tasted bv
the ladies, probably for the same reason that
our great grantl-dame. whose name it bears,
was induced (o taste it. On the surface, it has
several identaticns, said to be made originally
upon it by our first mother The dens look
like impressions of the fingers.
81 h. The papaya grows on a tree fifteen to
twenty feet in height: the fruit when ripe is of
a beantdol yellow, about the size of a large or
ange, rather insipid t» the taste, though fre
quently eaten by natives of the country.
dth The plantain and banana-the tree U?U #
ally about fift. en feet in he>ghtb:the fruit grows
in a slngie cluster at the lop. The principal
difference in these fruits is their siz»- -The
cluster of fruit on each tree, when ripe, would
weigh from twenty tt> thirty pounds. It is 3
very valuable tood for negroes, and when cook
ed constitutes a considerable p.*ir ; of their liv
ing; it is also esteemed as a luxury on the ta
bles of the whites.
lOlh, The bread fruit, originally from the
South Sea Islands, is cultivated m ornamental
grounds, and is, a beautiful tree. The fruit i»
nearly as large as a cocoa nut. and when tho
outw.»rd covering is stripped off, presents tho
seed or hull about the size of large chesnats —
The fruit is but little used here
11th. The sour 6op is about the size of tho
bread fruit. It is a pleasant acid, and is much
esteemed by some; when cooked, it makes act
agreeable sauce.
12th. Gunyaba, (pronounced guawva } Thi$
is a tree much resembling the quince tree of tho
Southern States. The fruit is round, about ais
inch, and a quarter in diameter, yellowish rough
skin, and resembles a small apple; jt has an a-
greeahle taste and odor: from it a celebrated 1
jelly is made, called the gUayaba,jelly. B
very little larger than.the guayaba, of a light
green or yellow color. When opened, it con
tains two large black oblong seeds, which arn
said to be poisonous;, the pirlp smells very fra
grantly, like the rose-hence itsname:ihe taste
is not unpleasant.
I4th. The pomegranate is aboot the size or
the rose apple*, the fruit, when opened, isfull of
seed, O- an agreeable acid; the tree is smalt
and somewhat ornamental; it has a small leaf
of a dark green color.
15:h. Z-ipote; this is a small purple-colored
fruit, about the size of a common Southern ap
ple, tasting very sweet when ripe. It h^s one
peculiarity: the day previous to its ripening,
it has a disagreeable taste, and is unfit for use.
On the day it is ripe, it is very delicious; but on
the next day becomes sour and unpleasant.-*
lienee it requires watching very closely, to en
joy its frail—the tree has a beautiful foliage.
16th. Mango: some esteem this an excellent
fruit. Those I tasted were not quite ripe.
Hence I could not well judge its qualities. It
is in a conical shape, a greenish yellow color,
the size ot a full grown apple, aad has a atone
dr pit about the of a peach stone. The
tree is beautiful, is much used lor avenues ami
makes a very close shade.
itth Mamon. (sugar apple) Eng.) a large
green fruit, said to be very mealy and pleasant
when npeV it has a rough skin, and when full
grown, is three to four inches diameter. The
tree resembles very closely aa American appfer
tree.
18th. Aligator pear, this rs not notp^in sea
son. It is said to be a very delicious^ruit whett
ripe, something larger than tbe largest sized
American pear. By some it ts called the vege
table marrow
l&h. Cereta, (cherry, Eng.) a fruit of the
size of a large plum, has a stone the form of q
peach stone, tart, and makes a very excellent
preserve.
20th. Mama, coforada, n fruit m a conical
shape, about the size of an orange, with the
external covering, a brownish yellow: it re
ceives the name ot colorada from the internal
color of the fruit, of a reddish hue. It is said
to be pleasant to the taste The tree has a
bean’ifol foliage: that which I saw was about
the siz of a well grown apple tree.
21st Mama, of St Pomingo, another varie
ty of the last mentioned: it is said to bo more
delicious than the other, and somewhat lin
ger.
22d Tamarind: the fruit grows in a pod, fs
well known in the United States aa cor tan-mg
a pleasant acid, and, sold in the apothecary
shops. The tree is beautjfnl for ori)r»a*#Rtal
grounds It grows tolerably large, but not taD,
and has a wide spreading foliage
23d. Calabash; it cannot properly be ca’led
a fruit, though it grows on a tree, and hangs
by a stem like apples; the calabash is princi
pally used for the same purposes as the $, urd
of the Southern States by negroes—to bold
liquids and such like domestic purposes: they
hold from one to three qnarts, and atv nearly
rounder 10a conical form. Tbe tree is a rug
ged scrbbbty growth, end makes a close shade.
24th Chicota—grows on a vine, and should
more projtwht .be t&lled agarddb vegetable