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The Leaves bruis’d are apply’d to Eryfipela’s by the Indians, The ‘Ta- 
marinds are us’d inftead of Vinegar. Gare. 
The Leaves make Sauce. The Stones rofted and powder’d are good in 
Fluxes, The Shade is hurtful to thofe fleeping under it. Acofta. 
The Juice has a fweetifh four adftringent Taite ; the Flefh is lefs fweet 
and more adftringent, and the Seeds moft of all. Cord. who was much 
out, when he faid, that in Eaft India the People us’d the Juice in their 
Medicines, fending us the Pulp and Seeds as ufelefs to them. Thofe 
which are moft purplifh and moift are beft, tho? not fprinkled with 
Vinegar. Id. 7. ; 
Lacuna thought this a Palm Tree, and that Tamarinds aré to be 
wafh’d from their Salt, and that they are good againft Frenfies and Melan- 
cholly. Id. 
The Pirates in Gazarate make the Merchants they take in Prizes drink 
flr Water and Tamarinds to make them void their. Pearls and Gold, 
thac they fcr Fear fwallow’d. Ff. B. They are good in Gonorrheas. Fallop. 
and in Fevers. Plater prefcribesthem by Number. de Febb. p. 158. 
Pyrard, p. 3. 14. lays they grow every where in the Indies. The Indians 
ferve themfeives in theirPottage with them inftead of Verjuice. TheFruit is 
laxative. The Wood is us’d for Fire. de Loubere.Tom. x. p. 288, of Stam, 
; oe apud Purchas, lib, 4. cap. 15. §. 1: p» §2g: found them at Mo~ 
ela. 
Sir Thomas Roe. ib. lib. 4. cap. 16. §.7. p- §62+ Planted in the Megul’s 
Country. | 
Bermudez. ib, lib. 7. cap. 7. §. 2. p. 1156. By the Rivers in Ethiopia; where 
my are eaten in Times of pearery: art 
o. dos Santtos. ap. Parchas. lib. 9. cap. 12. §. 3. p. 1547. in anl 
in Lake Rufanbe abolit Sofala. anit 3B 547 Hand 
Ligon, p.69. of Barbados newly planted: 
Terry p.103.in the Mogal?s Country. 
Hernan. Lopez de Cafta. cap. 40. in Cananer. 
Linfchot. defcrip.de Guinee. cap. §. in Congo. where he tells us that the 
Turks and Moors mix it with Water and drink it, to cool themfelves 
in Fevers and Voyages, as well as their Livers and Reins, this Drink o- 
pening the Belly. 
Mandelflo, p- 149. tells us that the Leaves clofe at Sun-fet to_ pre- 
ferve the Fruit from Dews, and that in Fava they ufé the Fruit in Sauces 
for Verjuice. 
They grow commonly in Sesega, Pommet. wii 
Dounton pid Pitches: lib. 3. 6. 12. p 277. §, 1. found this Treé in Ma- 
ee cate: ob i for piel Ge being moft plentiful of ‘any Sort 
ruit is Good againft th ; ib. §.-§. ps 204. 10 ufed’ 
* be rom Cha aes aed he Scurvy and 1b. S. §. ps 304. it ufed 
illiam Finch, ap. Parchas: lib. a. cap. a, §. 2. p- 417. met With it in Ma- 
dagalcar ib. §. 4. p- 426 and in che Madine Coudtty i | : oe : 
Davis apud. Purchas, lib. 3. cap. x. §. 4. p- 118- faw itin Madagafcar. 
‘ The Bark powderd and mix’d with Rice Water, rub’d on the Body, 
diffipates fuperfluous Humours. H. M, y 
Pi bs Fruit variés on thé fame Tree, being long, round, and of all 
The Leaves miraculoufly cover the Fruit in the Ni i 254) 
The Leaves are adftringent and four ;.g00d in the ee ee d 
i hog The -siiie ie make a Drink in avd of Thirty Aiiphara 
Oo ater, two Pound of Sugar fe 5 
marinds, all fermented. BM) v0 S00, tae 
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