The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIGA. 
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The Pulp is well tafted, {tops the Belly and Blee 
The Indians carve them fometimes with Lines r 
tures of a Man’s Head. Mr, Hubert was mifinform’d when he was 
told that this was Prickly, if he means this by his other Sort of Maraca- 
Tree, which I take to be this Tree, only witha leffer Fruit, 
Aucce perforate con Pietre dentro, chee? tnftrumento delle lor Major fefte & 
non le cavano fe non per baltare o per medicare nee alcuno che Pardifca pic- 
liare 1n mano fe non efi: ec dicono che quele Rucche hanno virtu & che vencon 
dal cielo perche in quei pacfi (Florida) xonne nafce, ne fanno onde vengano, fe 
non che portano 4 fiumti guando veugono grofi Alvaro Nunez, p> 324. & ap. 
Ramaus. ap. Purchas. p.1520. by which it appears that they are ufed 
for the fame Purpofes in Brafile and Florida, 
Hughes. p 65. tells us that the Fruit {mells like Wine, and that the Juice 
is drank by fome; the Shells make Tobacco Boxes, Cups for drinking 
Chocolate and other Liquors, and Dram-Bottles. 7 
Ligon p. 14. found this Tree in the Cape-Verde-Tfles, and p. 72. in 
Barbados. 
This is the Courge creufe de la quelle eft fait P inftrument apelle Maraco de 
Linf[chot defc. Amer. cap.11. mention’d to grow in Brajfile. 
The Mexican Chronicle publifhed by Parchas, p. 1092. takes notice 
that the Shells of this Fruit, our of which they drank their Cacao, 
were as a Tribute paid to the Mexicans from the Towns of their hot 
Countries. 
Nicol. ap. Purchas, lib. 6. cap. 13. p. 1255. obferv’d this Tree in the 
Ifland of Sta. Lacia. 
This Fruit is likewife the Zuche feche mention’d to be cut intwo to 
empry Water from Canoes by Col, f. 52. 
ding, Laer, 
eprefenting the Su- 
XXXVITT. Cacurbitifera fruticofa trifolia feandens: Cat. jam. p. 207. 
Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 82. 
- This Tree has a woody, round Stem, cover’d with a fmooth, light 
brown colour’d Bark, rifing and turning round the higheft Trees, put- 
ting forth here and there on the fame Footftalk always three Leaves, 
which are fmooth, of a frefh green Colour, long and narrow; the 
Fruit is exactly like a Calabafh, only fimaller. 
It grew onthe Trees, in a Wood in the Road between Juftice Free. 
man’s and Mrs. Gzy’s, in Guanaboa. 
XXXMIX. Cucurbitifera arbor forte, rhamni facie pinofa, foliis oblongis 
confertim nafcentibus. Cat. Fam.p. 207. Tab. 228. ig. 2. Raij. Hift. Vol, 
3. Dendr, p. 82. 
This Shrub rifeth by feveral Truncs, each about the Bignefs of one’s 
Arm, from the fame Root; they are ftreight, nine or ten Foot high, and 
cover’d with a very fmooth, white Bark, having feveral Branches and 
Twigs ftanding ftreight out; the Branches have Tufts of Leaves com- 
ing out of a {mall Protuberance, as thofe of the Calabafh-Tree, only 
{maller, at every Inch’s or lefs Diftance on the Twigs or Branches, each 
being almoft an Inch long, and three quarters of one broad near the 
End, where they are round and broadeft, {mooth, of a yellowifh green 
Colour, the Twigs ufually end after an Inch and a half’s Length, in 
Prickles, whence by a Number of them the Shrub feems prickly. 
It grew in a Wood, between the Town Savanna and two Mile 
Wood. 
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