The Nataral Hiftory of A M AICA. 
ing Drink to Travellers, and they will harbour five hundred. Perfons. 
Anonymus Portugal of Brafite, Purchas, lib. 9. cap. 1. 9. 130u 
Here (at Dominita) the Indians cathe unto us in Canoes made of 4 
whole Tree, in fome whereof were: three Men, infome four ot fix, and 
in others twelve or fourteen. Davies apud Hakl. p. 3. p. ¥99. , 
Canoas are made of this Tree fo large, as to hold an hundred, or ar 
hundred and twenty Men. The Purrrelics, Spurres or Feet af this Tree are 
as high as a Man can reach with a Javeling; there were thtee of 
them, and twenty Foot between each: There is a very great ‘Tree 
in the Province of Guaruro, each of whofe three Feet were twenty 
Spans thick on their outward Side, and forty five Spans in Thicknefs 
where they join’d the Trunc, Oviedo’s Sum. » 206. ap. Eden. — 
Oviedo, lib. 9. cap. 1s. tells they were fo large as fcarce to be fathom’d 
by fifteen Men. | 
Smith in his Obf. ps §4. obferv’d thefe Trees in St. Chrifopher’s, which 
was overgrown with them, and that this Silk Cotton, or Down, is of good 
Ufe for Beds. | : 
Pigafett. of Congo, Ind. Or. p.1.p. 10. {peaks of aTree whereof Canoes 
are made, which fix Men with extended Arms cannot fathom, they 
hold two hundred Men with Atms and Oars. 
There are Trees fixteen, feventeen, or eighteen Fathoms about at Cape 
tres punts. Ind. Or, Part 6, p. 7i. 
 Honate, as this Silk Cotton is calPd by Molizet, v. 209. he tells usis 
‘ufed to line Cloaths and Coverlids, is new and commodious, and thae ir 
was lately brought from the Indies for that Purpofe. — 
The Down of Bededfar, Alp.:is like Cotton, and with it are made 
Veftments called Ouatte Honaph. p. 3. 
That this is the rabi facie fentico/a planta, Lobel. ~. 45%. is cértaitt, the 
Figure of it when young, agreeing to Lobet’s, and that the Plant there 
figured is not the Bondach, as Dr. Plakenet, p. 2. of his Maatiffa and 4. 
of his Alizage/t affirms, is very plain, the Figure of the Bonduch be- 
ing when grown up, fmooth, and no ways refembling that Figure of 
Lobet. | 
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oa Ae Mo AiiesokVenoliannelt 
Of Trees whith bear Berries; and “are Umbilicated or Cdlicalated. 
PWAHERE are three Kinds of Trees, which in this IMland make 
up the greacelt Part of this Tribe, viz.’ Myrtles, Periclymena- 
Recfa,anda Sort of Trees which aré Very numerous, having Leaves of 
Canela, or Malabathram, elegantly nervous, and a coronated Fruit 
which comes nédreft t6 a Goofeberry Of any European Fruit I rc- 
mene put amongft the Myrtles fome Myrtle-Jeav’d Trees of which 
{ did not meet with the Fruit, and therefore am not pofitive they 
: o this Place. 
Pea as thofe called Vibhyna by fone Authors, and by me, Periclymena, 
ido not queftion but that their Fruits are fo differing from Viburna 
and their Flowers and Fruit fo like‘ thofe of the Periclymena, that 
ft thall have the Affens of thofe who nicely confider both. 
For 
