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Ube Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
The Indians have a Tree wherewith they take their Fith, for their pre: 
fent Ufe, being near their Habitations. They take three or four little 
Sticks of it and bruife their Ends againit a Stone, rub them between their 
Hands, in {mall Creeks, which at high Water are full of Fifh coming with 
the Tide, irc caufes them to turn up their Bellies, and fo they take as many 
as they pleafe. This is a Providence of God to thofe barbarous People, 
being a natural Help for prefent Food and Suftenance. Rob. Harcourt. 
ap. Purchas, lib, 6. p. 1276. cap. 16. in Guiana. 
After the Sea has left many Fifh in Holes and Receffes brought thither 
by the Tide, in their Boats they rub the Twigs of this a little beaten 
into the Water, that a of the Bark may diffufe itfelf, and the 
Fifh are fo fleepy as to fwim at Top and be taken with Hands. Pif. 
Let, : 
Timbo, a fort of With, intoxicates Fifhes. Fo. de Leet. Lid. 15. Cap. 16, 
in Brafile, 
The Bark of the Root beaten and put into Bags wafh’d in a River, 
intoxicates Fifh. Tertre. 
Chriffofle D’ Acugna, in his Relation of the River of the Amazons, 
makes mention of a Wood called Inecow, made Ufe of by the Indians 
Galibis and thofe of Cayenne, of which, if Sticks be made broad at the 
Ends, and the Surface of the Ponds beaten therewith, the Fifh grow 
drunk with the Noife, or rather Quality of the Wood, that they rife up 
dead, and fuffer themfelves to be taken with the Hand by the Indians, 
which I believe may be by the Wood of this Tree. 
A Kind of Wood with which the Indians take their Fifh, they beat it 
again{t fome Stone or Tree until one End thereof be all bruis’d, and put- 
ting that into the River, prefently the Fifh become drunk, and run them- 
felves on the Shoar and {wim above Water as our Haddocks do in England. 
Purchas, lib. 6, Vol. 4. p. 1264. Wilfon. 
KIMI. Arbort Coral affinis non Jpinofa, faces folio rotundiore, folijs 
o ramets pubefcentibus. Cat. Fam. p. 144. Tab. 187.Fig. 3. Raij. Hift. Dendy. 
» 108, 
: ‘The Twigs of this Tree were cover’d over witha woolly, whitifh Bark, 
having fome foft Wood and a very large Pith ; the Leaves came out round 
them, being 7 or 8 Inches long, and having Pinnz fet on to them, each 
of which ‘ea one tenth of an Inch long Petiolus, being roundifh, or oval, 
and of about three quarters of an Inch diameter, woolly on both Sides, 
and white, having an odd one at the End. The Tops of the T Wigs are 
for about four or five Inches Spikes of papylionaceous Flowers, as the 
former, each of which ftands in a white Calix. I did not. obferve the 
Seeds, or Seed-Veffel, and therefore can fay no more of it. 
I found it in the inland Parts of this Ifland. 
This is not what I fufpe€t to be Oexmelins Quinguina ; but the Prece- 
‘dent, as appears by my Catalogue, which Dr. Plukener, p- 150. Of his 
Mantiffa, has miftaken, 
XIV. Lobas Echinatus frattu flavo folijs rodundioribus. Herm. Cat. jam. 
P- 144. Acacia gloriofa lemti(ci rotundioribus folijs {pinofa fructa flavo Pluk. 
Alm. p. 5. Bonduch. V ulgare majus Polyphyllam, Plum, pt. Am. p. 25, 
Nicker Tree. 
_ The Stem, or Trunc of this Tree, or Shrub, rifes eight or nine Foot 
high, is as thick as one’s Arm, having a Clay colour’d, {mooth Bark, 
and 
