And narrow streets diverging all around.

Between the houses, filling up each space,

The broad, green-leaved, luxuriant plantain grows,

Bearing huge bunches of most wholesome fruit;

The orange too is there, and grateful lime;

The Inga pendent hangs its yard-long pods

(Whose flowers attract the fairy humming-birds);

The guava, and the juicy, sweet cashew,

And a most graceful palm, which bears a fruit

In bright red clusters, much esteem’d, for food;