mendibees

Updated: June 26, 2025

Physick-nuts, as our seamen called them, are called here pineon; and agnus castus is called here carrepat: these both grow here: so do mendibees, a fruit like physick-nuts. They scorch them in a pan over the fire before they eat them.

William Dampier - A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699