JOANNA (St), one of the Comoro islands in the Indian ocean, E. Long. 44. 25. S. Lat. 12. 0. The north side shoots out into two points, 26 miles asunder, between which there is a great bay. This island is a proper place of refreshment for the East India ships, whose crews, when ill of the scurvy, soon recover by the use of limes, lemons, and oranges, and from the air of the land. The island abounds with horned cattle, goats, fowls, rice, pepper, cocoa-nuts, plantains, bananas, oranges, lemons, limes, pine-apples, guavas, plums, yams, and potatoes. They have likewise honey and sugar-canes; and the soil is so rich, that it seems proper for any other vegetables: all these, except the cocoa-nuts, may be gathered at pleasure. The prospect of the country is exceeding beautiful, and may be called without exaggeration a terrestrial paradise; every valley being a delightful grove, and the hills covered with variety of evergreen trees, combined with water-falls and cascades, render it impossible that they should receive any addition from art. The town where the king resides is at the east side of the island; and though it is three quarters of a mile in length, it does not contain above 200 houses. However, the villages are thick, and there are cottages almost every where. Their principal houses are built with stone, with a quadrangle in the middle, and are only one story high. All the other houses, or rather huts, are slightly composed of plastered reeds; and yet the mosques are tolerable structures, very neat and clean in the inside. The horned cattle are a kind of buffaloes, having a large hump on their shoulders, which is very delicious eating. They have neither horses nor asses, nor beasts of prey; but they have monkeys of several sorts, and bats as large as a weasel; they have also various sorts of birds not yet distinguished by any particular name.