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grows higher, but afte: the fame Manner of the Prickly Pear-Tree, that 
the Infects come trom another Tree, that they appear on the Surface 
of the Leaves in the Form of a little Bladder which thé Indians (climb- 
ing the Tree) fweep down into an Iron Pan that is fer On the 
Fire afterwards and leaves the Cochineel to be put into Chefts as 
cured; if they be not enoagh dryed the Infe&s take Life and fly 
away. 
A Blecdaees affured me, that oace fome of his Comrades, join’d with 
himfelf, had taken a Prize, and there being in it much Cochineel, they lay 
on fome of the Bags, and that it took Life and crept about ; it came 
from Metoque in the Bay of Honduras. 
I found in the Sulct of the wild Tamarind-Trees in Famaica the famé 
Infeét, or one very like it, and it imitated Cochineel’ fo well on {rit 
Tryal by being cured after the fame Manner, that I do not qpcftion but 
that ’tis the truce Way. 
Other Infe€ts that I faw on this Tree were white, and no bigger 
than a Loufe, fhap’d like it, many of them, lodg’d in the uncur’d 
Cochineel, crawling about and very much coveted by Ants, whence I 
believe they are the greateft Enemies they have. The Account given 
by Herrera. ot clearing the Shrubs with Foxes Tails may be to clear 
them of thefe Ants. : | 
-They ftink like Hair, or Horn by a Candle. 1s 
Hernandez fays they came either naturally or elf the Seed was kept, 
and at a convenient ‘lime put to the Leaves, and that the Places where 
they grew were kept clean and -fenc’d from Cattle. 
Rochefort tells us of a Worm on a Sort of this Tree, dying red. 
The’ this Tree» yields no Fruit of Ufe, yet they cultivate it with 
great Diligence, for the fmall Worms breeding on the Leaves when 
itis well cultivated, being faften’d there and cover’d with a delicate 
Web: They dry them and bring them into Spain, in 1547 in the 
Flota came 5677, Arobas, Acofta. : 
~ . ‘It is generated on the Tuva, and is a Worm like a Cimex. The Trees 
are fet in open Places defended from the North; it is lefs than a Flea, 
gather’d twice a Year, they plant their Trees like Vines, the younger 
Trees are the better ; they ufe Foxes Tails to clean the Tree from In 
fects ; Hens are kept: off of it; they are killed, when large enough, 
with Water, and dryed in the Shade, or they kill them with Athes, 
wafhing them, buc that killed with Water is belt, the wild is not good. 
There is another Sort wild and°blacker ;’ the Mountainous, on Chichi- 
meca is not good, that from ‘Tlaxcala ik beft, ic is beat and boil'd 
in a Decottion of Leaves of Tezhuatl with a little Allom, which fub- 
fiding is made up into Cakes called Grana En Pan for Women and 
Painters, Laet. Herr. ' i 7 
The beft grows in Mifteca Province, Leet. id 24 14 
Cochineel breeds’ in the Frujt about Guatimala, Cheapé and’ Guaxaca 
in Mexico, Dampier: . ‘290 nT EHio oe ek. Po 
T'doubt it this be the Cochineel-Tree called ‘by the ‘Spaniards Toon 
of Dampier, Cap.8.. or thee Free that bears the Silvefter,° id. 
The Commodity of Cochinilla groweth in greateft Abundance about 
the “Town of Pablo de tos ‘Angelos, and is riotoworth- above 4od. per 
Libs ; Bodhenham ap. Hakl, Patt.-3: p. 455: Cochinilla is brought into Spain 
from Pueblo de los Angelos, Chilton ap. Halk. p. 456."-and the Cities 
thereabout, fome Indians paying Tribute in it. i. p.457. and from Pa- 
ettoCavalle in Honduras, which is not of fuch Value ay that of Nova 
ipania, ib, p. 458. 
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