The Natural Fifory of JAMAICA 
Antonius Pigafetta fays, that in Tidore the Women a i ) 
naked, fave that before their Privities they have a Covetee te 
fi ree, which being fteep’d in Water is beaten into as large a Form as hs 
will, and even tothe Thinnefs of Silk. Parchas. lib. 2. cap. ay nee 
thatthe inner Bark of the Palm-Tree ferves for the fame Purpofe Hi the 
Iflands Ladrones, and lib. 2. cap. 2. p. 37. & p. 38. the fame mentions 
Cloth made of the Rind of a certain Tree, with which they cover their 
Privities. 
Clufius likewife fome where mentions a-‘Clew of Thread of the Bark of 
a Tree, and feveral Barks fit for writing on. | 
A ftriped Stuff of Cotton, or Rinds of Trees is worn in Fava. Scott. ap. 
Purchas lib. 3. cap. 4.'§. 1.p- 165. 
~ Cloth of Kinds of Trees is ufed to cover thePrivities of thofe of Madaga/- 
car. Keeling. ap. Purchas. 192.Will.Finch, ib. p.417. lib.4. cap.4. §. 2. There 
is alfo mention’d a Commodity brought from Gasgamora in St. Law- 
rence, (Cloth made of Barks of Trees, whence they make cool Gar- 
ments) by Payton. ib. cap. 15. §. 1. p. 529. being fent.as Merchandife to 
Mohelta. 
Palm Cloth,great Store was bought inLoango by Battel. ap.Purchas.tib.7. 
cap.3. §. 2.p- 971. and wore about the King of Gaga’s Middle. p. 977:it is a 
Commodity there in Loango, 979. and of fundrySorts, 981. of the Leaves of 
them clean’d and purg’d, they draw Threads long and even for thar Pur- 
pofe, making Velvets, Damasks, Sarcenets, Taffataes, and Sattins. sb. 
985. They are kept water’d and cutevery Year. | 
In the Province of Dombe in Guiney, near Congo, or Angola, they wear 
Cloth of the Tree Iv/andie, whichis neither {pun nor woven. Basel. ap. 
Purchas. lib, 7. cap. 30 §. 2. p- 973: 
Cloth is made of Palm Leaves. Pigafett. of Congo. p. 1. Ind, or p. 13. 
Palm Leaves are likewife made into Thread. #b. p. 13. and loofe Gar- 
_ments made of them. p. 4. 
Our European Cloth was thought to grow by thofe of Kermentain. 
Ind. ov pars. 6. Pp. 43- 7 
Cloth made of the Bark of a Palm Tree, is taken Notice of by Wel/b ap. 
Hakl. p.129. p. 2.in Benin. 
In Cintigui Cloathes are. made of the Bark of Trees. Polo ap. Purchas. 
Lib. 1p. 94. 
in Losnda is the Tree Eafanda growing by Filaments (fhot from the 
Ends of the Twigs) under the Srft Bark grows.a Sort. of Linen, 
which after beating, cleanfing, ftretching in Length and Breadth, ferves 
the Iflanders for their Accoutrements. Linfchot. defcr. Guin. cap. 4. | 
Foncoe is a Tree, of the Bark of which is made Paper. Louhere du Siam. 
p- 43+ Lom. 1. 
Arbor miraculofa Enzanda dicta Pigafett. de Congo.1. par. Ind. ferves to 
make Cloaths of -its inner- Bark which refembles Cloth made, p. 8. 
This Tree feems to be eithera Fig Tree, funiculis a fumints ramss des 
miffis or a Mangrove Tree. 
They make Nets of a Tree’s Bark in Kormentain. Ind. or: par. 6. 
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p do Anonymus Portugal of Elvas, p. 43. 4p. Purchas. 1536. mentions in 
Florida Mantles of that Country which are like Blankets ; they make 
them of the inner Rind of the Barks of Trees, and fome ofa Kind of Grafs 
like Nettles, which being beaten is like unto Flax. Women wear two, 
‘one from the Wafte downward, the other over their/Shoulder, with their 
right Arm out like the Egyptians or Gypfies. 
XITI. Laxro 
