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The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell

by Andrew Battell

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[ Ground-nuts. ]

They have very good Peason [peas], somewhat bigger than ours, but they grow not as ours do; for the pods grow on the roots, underneath the ground, and by their leaves they know when they be ripe.200 They have another kind of Peason, which they call Wando.201 This is a little tree, and the first year that it is planted it beareth no fruit; but after, it beareth fruit three years, and then it is cut down.202

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