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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
A young Shoot of this Tree fix’d in the Earth, if it be good, in 
three or four Years will grow to be as big as the largeit Oak in Fraace, 
Tertre. i 
The Seeds are eaten and tafte like Almonds, Herz. 
Et difmontatiin terra vedemmo gli habitatort habitar nelle cime de gli al- 
beri, come uccelli havendo Attra verfati dak un ramo all altro altunt bastoni, 
cx fabricate quivi le loro capanne, che coft poffono chiamar fi pin tofto che cafe. Et 
Ancor che noi non fapelfimo la cagione dt cotal novita, nondimeno judicammo, 
che chio procedeffe dalla paura de Grift qualt fono in quel paefe 30 de nimitis 
vercioche in tutta quella cofta hanno da una Lega allalira gran nimicitie, Fern. 
Col- 212. 
It is an unlikely this is by Batted called the Alscunde or Eliconde, which 
isa Tree very tall and exceeding great, fome of them are as big as twelve 
Men can fathom, fpreading like an Oak ; fome of them are hollow, and 
from the liberal Skies receive fuch Plenty of Water, that they are hofpitable 
Entertainers of thoufands in that thirlty Region. Once have I known 
three or four thoufand remain at one of thofe Trees, and thence receive 
all their watery Provifion for twenty four Hours and not yet empty. 
The Negroes climb’d up with Pegs of hard Wood (which that fofter 
eafily receiveth, the Smoothnefs not admitting other climbing) and I 
think that fome’one Tree holds forty Tun of Water. This I'ree affords 
no lefs bountiful Hofpitality to the Back than Belly, yielding (as her 
Belly to their Bellies fo) her Back to their Backs; excepting that this 
is better from the younger Trees, whofe tenderer Backs being more 
feafonable for Difcipline are foundly beaten (for Mans Fault whence 
came the firft Nakednefs) whereby one Fathom cut from the Tree, is 
extended into twenty, and is prefently fit for wearing, tho’ not fo fine’ 
as the Furanda Tree yields. This Tree yields excellent Cloth from the 
inner. Bark thereof by slike beating. Batted. ap. Purchas, lid. 7. cap. 3. 
TT haloboe defcr, de, Guinee, cap, 3. tells us that in Congo they make Boats 
of. its Trunc, able to hold two hundred Men. Twenty or thirty Pipes 
of Water are carried)in Canoes of this Treein the Eaft-Indies, id. 
Roveneau de Luffan, p. 27. met with Canoes of this Tree on Boca del-Ghica 
River, and p. 58. at St. Fuan de Cueblo Tile, Boats made of Mapo. or Acajon 
as he there feems to call this Tree, are able to carry fourfcore Men. 
Aoppolt, cioe almadie tutte dun legno, di Cada Moffo, av. Rammus.' p. 110." 
were found in the River Senega, ufed to fifh with, and p. 114, the fame 
in the River Gambra...0..0\ | 
This Sitk Cotton is likely to be Certa lana che colgono da certi arbori, Di 
Alvaro Nunex p> 348+ Apud Ramans, which is ap. Purchas, tranflated certain 
Cotton. p. 1510. 46h, 8, Py ! . 
In the Winter in Gaiana the Tivitivas live upon Trees, where they 
build very artificial Towns and Villages, as it is written in the Spanifh. 
Story Of she Welt Indies, that thofe People do in the Low-lands near’ 
the Gulf of Uraba River rifing between May and September; and overflowing 
their lower, Houfes on the Grouad wheredn are their Summer Houks. 
Sir Walter Rawleigh, of Guianay pian. apud Hak, p- 644. p. 3. | 
This is probably the Silk mention’d to be in Guiana by Keymit: apad ’ 
Hakt..p, 3 ps 675. esonkd yb yvascm b'nts 
Canoes or Almadies in Guinea are, made out of one Tree like a Trough, 
able to. carry twenty, thirty, or fixty Men, eight Yards long and one 
broad, Sir John Hawkins ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 504. OQ1 . 
There.is'in’ Brafile a certain “Tree overy: great and broad, having 
Holes in the Branches full of Water, growing in dry Places, afford- 
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