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The Natural Hiftory of JAMA Ic Ae 
Pyrard. cap. 1.p.4. found this Tree at Asmabon. Sit Thomas Roe, apad 
Purchas. lib. cap. 16. §. 1. 536 and 537. found it at Awgerefia one of the 
Comorra’s. At Mohelia another of them, where the Rinds are ufed for 
Towels, and the Shells for pouring out Water. The Coco-milk is for 
Drink: Junks of Forty Tuns are made of it, they are fowed not pinned, 
calked and freighted with this Tree’s Produét. 7+. They grow alfo at So- 
Cotora, P. 539 : 
The Dutch, fecond Voyage fays, lib. 5. cap. 15. Pp. 709. they grow at 
Amboyna. | 
Dwart de Meneles. Purchas. lib. g. cap. 10. §. 1.p. 1506. found about Goa 
Groves of them planted at twelve Paces in Length diftance, whcre they 
cover their Houfes with their Leaves, 1511. and have great Numbers of 
Cocos. Jo. dos Santos ib, cap. 12,9. 1. pot 536. tells us, that Oyl is made of 
this Fruit, which burns clearer than that of Olives: p. 1537. The Por- 
tuguefe drink Palm-Wine there, butthe Cafres that of Gainey-Wheat, tho’ it 
makes them tipfie. Galvanos faw them,jib. p.1689. on the low Ifles called /os 
Fardines difcovered in the South Seas by Scavedra in 12 or 10 Degrees 
Latitude. The Fruit is eat inftead of Bread, breaking it before it is 
ripe, putting it under the Sand, after certain Days, they take it out 
and lay itinthe Sun and then they will open. 4. 
An Anonymus Portugal, Purchas, lib. 139. cap. %. p. 1307+ found them 
in Brafil fet in Farms, Ferdinando, Giros. 4b. 7. cap. 10. p. 1424. in Terra 
Auftralis incognita, and David Middleton, ap. Purchas, lib. 3. 6. 8. 
p. 226. about the Mol.ccos, and by Polo ap. Purchas. lib.1. p. 103. in 
Samara. 
Parchas. lib. 2. p. 285. tells us’tis in the Philippinas, and if it be his 
Palm-Tree thereof Wineis madein China, ib. p. 292. 
Monfieur Rochef. p.82. affures us that the Water clears the Face of Wrin- 
kles, and gives ita good Colour. 
The Nuts being broken to pieces, their Bark taken off, and the 
Kernels dried, are carry’d to Places where they are not plentiful, and are 
eaten as Chefnuts, being better than the whole ones brougkt to Portz- 
gal, Nieremo. The Elder the Tree the better the Cabbage, 2d. : 
There is no other Kernel but the foft, hollow, thick and oval, white 
Subftance within the Shell. | , 
Jones apud. Purchas. lib. 3. cap. 9-§.1- p. 228. met with thefe Trees near 
Pembaand p. 229 in great Plenty in the Comorha Ifles near St. Laurence 
and in defolate Iflands thereabouts. : 
Cauche, p. 146. relates that Wineis made of it in Madagafca 
Gin Ve ‘ines afcar and the 
Henry Midleton apud. Purchas, lib. 3. cap. 11. §. 2.p. 251. fi 
Trees at Moha in tks Red Sea. Downton 4 cap. e ¢ 4- 3 5 ero 
Surat, where feventeen thoufand of this Fruit were bought for Refrefh- 
ment. 
Davis apud Purchas lib. 3- cap. 1. p. 119. §. 4. found this Tree on the 
Maldiva, p. 134, and on Diego Graciofa. Lancalter on Diego Piz. 10 De- 
we and one half South Lat. near the Maldives. apud Purchas lib. 3. cap. 2: 
aan f i Keeling ea: gas lib. 3, cap- 6- §- 5. p. 203. in the 
oods of Bazda, and Salbank apud P ib, 
about Gos Town. urchas, 1b, 3, cap. 9. §. 4. p. 238. 
Antonio Pigafetta, apud. Purchas. lib. 2. cap. 2+ p, 27. : i i 
a Fruit of certain Date. Trees, whereof fe Eee Fo 
Vinegar. They make Wine in this manner ; they cuta large Branch of the 
Tree, and hang thereat a Reed as big as a Man’s Leg, into which drop- 
eth a fweet Liquor from the Tree, like White-wine, fomewhat tart, 
and 
