The Natural Hiffory of JAM AICA. 
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Hughes, p. 60. Yhave been told by Negroes, that in Guiney they take 
the ourward Rind of thefe Nuts, teafe it, card it out into a 
Kind of Okam, and then make Ropes and Cordage thereof, and alfo 
Sails. They take the Kernel, beat it a litrle, and pue ‘there- 
ro the Liquor that came forth of the Nut, then ftrain it and 
jt maketh a perfect and pleafanc Milk both in Colour and Tatte 
fo that it is {carce to be difcerned by them that are nor well acquainted 
with it, from the Milk of fome Animal. 
Mandelflo, p. 179, fays this Tree grows in the South Provinces of 
China, and p. 206, in Madagafcar. Ic was found in St. ‘fago, one of 
the Cape Verde Ifles, by Ligon. p.g. where tis the chicf Trade of the 
Place, 18. 
Terry, p. 53. met with it in Mobelia, and p. 55, {peaks of a Gum com- 
ing from it to calk Ships. If this be his Toddie Tree, ’tis in the 
Mogul’s Country, p.97- where its Wine cures the Stone, which Palm 
or, Toddie-Tvee is planted by the Perfees in Guzarat, id, p. 353- 
Cables are made of thie outfide of Cocos called Cairos, Linfchot. cap. 56. 
A Demi Pardante, or Carolus Profit is made of each Coco-Tree at Goa, 
every Day, cap. 25. Linfchor. who in his defcrip, de la Guinee, cap. §. found 
this Tree in Congo, 
Three Malabar Ships were found loaded with Cairo and Coco-nats, 
Deunton apad Purchas. lib, 3. cap. 12. §. 5. 302. who fays that dry’d Coco- 
wutsarefentto Chaall. ib. p. 304. and that Fagara or brown Sugar fromit 
is loaded from Calicut to Aden. tb. p. 306. ' | 
Hoare apud Purchas. lib. 5. cap. 8. pe 657. found it on the Coaft of 
Malabar. : 
Pyrard. cap. 4, p. 32 found thefe Trees at Molaclei one of the Comor- 
vas iflands, and tells us, that Thirty two Barks were made of, and loa- 
ded with them, as at Maldives, and fent to Mofambique. 
Saris apud Purchas, lib. 4. cap. 1. §. 1. p. 336. faw them at Comorra. 
and ib. §. 5. p. 360. at Moluccos and Belt 2b. lib. 4. cap. 7. §. 1. P. 457: 
at Mal-ilha one of the Comorra’s Iflands. 1b. p. 364. by the Molaccos and 
apud Purchas. lib. 4. cap.7- §. 2. p. 461. at Dabul. and at Maldiva and 
Beringar. Elkinton ib. p. §1§. §. 1- found thefe Trees in an Ifland going 
from Szratt to Bantam, Milcead by Fava ib. lib. 4. cap. 14. p. 525. Payton, 
lib. 4. cap. 15. §. 1. p. 529. at Mohelia, Child, lib, 5. cap. 2. p. 606. at 
Comorra and at Bria, Fara. and not far from Comorin, Pring. ib. lid. 5. 
cap. 7. §. p. 633. 
z Banak Evid Pobclls lib. 4. cap. 9. §.1. p. 489. found them likewife 
at Mohelia near Comorra Ifles, called there Sejavoye; where Surra, a 
kind of Drink is made of the Fruit, they were alfo at Doffar on the 
Coaft of Arabia. ib. p. 490. 
Pyrard fays, that the Fruit on the Maldives is the Price of Labour, 
where they make Sails and Panniers of their Leaves, p. 46. They likewife 
are thrown down by great Storms, 65. Thefe Trees are the Riches of 
this Country, 70. Honey is made of their Water with the Help of white 
Coral, 72. andeap. 10. p. 85. 26. the Kernel is Bread, its Wood makes 
Houfes which are thatch’d with its Leaves fow’d one into the other, 89. 
Jo. dos Santos ap. Purchas. lib. 9. cap.12. §.4.p.1554. This Tree grows 
on the lileof Quwirimba. Of Casro ace made Kopes, from Cabo dos Co- 
rientes to the Red Sea, for Ships, Pasgayss and Almadias, and Sails 
forthem are made of the Leaves. 
Toddy (as Copland apud Purchas lib, 4. cap. 8. p. 467, §. 1. tells us) is 
fweetning and fatning at Saratr. 
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