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The Natural Hiflory of J AMAICA. 
The Fruit makes Veffels, giving Wine a Fragancy, eafing Pains of 
the Head, and Loins, provoking Urine; Indians beat the Kernell 
with Water and drink it in their Sicknefles. Thevet. Sig. 
The Iflanders of Zebut anoint with Coco Oil their whole Bodies. Cap. 
1. Gom. 
The Cups made of this Shell are gcod for thofe that are fplenetick, and 
good Thatch is made of the Leaves, Ca/a/p. 
The Leaves ferve to write on, the firit Letter fent to the King of Por- 
tucal from Calecat, waswrit on this Leaf. Ferdinando Lopes. 
This Nut binds Lagd. 
The common Figures of this Tree with a round and fingle Fruit, are 
not good. 3 
A Milkis made of it like Almonds for Meat, and for boiling Rice, it is 
as good as ordinary Milk. 
‘The Indians make Ute of the folding inward Subftance of this Tree for 
Paper. Ind. or. p. 4. cap. 12. 
The Shells having three Holes are in fome Places put on for Masks to 
fright Children. Anon. ad tab. Cofm. The Indians in Malabar are troubled 
with Worms from this Fruit. J. B. 
Leaves make Paper and Cloaths. f. B. Such Cloaths were fent fora Pre- 
fent tothe Portugal King. Maffez. : 
The Indians write very elegantly on the Leaves. Bont. 
The Top of the Tree is eat, Elephants love it and therefore root out 
the Tree, the elder the Fruit, the more Oily the Tafte of it, at firft the 
Water in the Nut is limpid, after ’tis turbid when the Kernel comes ; 
the Nut iseat when tender and young. Suri, or Sura, an inebriating Li- 
quor comes from the Footftalks of the young Fruit, yielding a Spirit ; 
FJagra a Sugar is made with Lime put to the Swi, Vinegar is made with 
Fermentation in Lime; theelder Trees give lefs Sari but ftronger; Oil 
of the Fruit is good for Hemorhoids and {cabb’d Heads ; the Juice from the 
Bae Branches mix’d with Honey, eafeth Pains of the Eyes. 
H. M. 
Groves of them are in Gwzam one of the Ladrones Ifles, the Kernel 
when ripe is very hard to digeft ; Moifture makes the Fruit fprout; Toddy 
is drawn from the Tree, and from it fowr Arack, the beft is Sonn! thea 
for Punch, itis drawn from a Branch that will yield it as long as the 
Fruit would have grown; the bearing Branches if all tapp’d there fol- 
loweth no Fruit, thofe not tapp’d bear, the Fruit Kernel rafp’d into 
Water, makes Milk to boil Fowl or Flefh in ; Oil is got by boiling theNut 
Kernel rafp’d in Water, it {wims atTop ; the/zdiavs beat theHusk to make 
Rope-Yarns and Coarfe Sail cloth ; they grow overflow’d with Salt Wa- 
ter ; the Fruit Fattens Hogs whofe Flefh is as hard as Brisket Beef. As 
bundance of them fwimming in the Sea are found with Water in cheat 
off of Sumatra. ‘They grow {maller, but more ponderous in an Ifle near 
that overflowed with Salt Water. The Hottentors and in moft Eaft India 
Nad the Tang os aE themfelves with Coconut Oil, two: or three 
‘imes a Day, efpecia ornings and Eveni oie; 
x Hour in Hata Tee pe oa Evenings, chafing it in for half 
aveneau de Lufjan, p. 78. found thefe Trees along the Co ‘cos 
ga, for the Space of fifteen Leagues, as if abel th ye met a 
Cif is mee i: the Rind by = Spaniards, which is better than ‘aie d 
€,4p. £iakl. Pp. 2. p. «4a : : ; = 
of the Cape Verde ifles 749. ays shat he found this Tree in Meioy: one 
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