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4. It is. used to heal different out-breakings, such as the 
itch, &c, . 
5. The cake left after the oil is ait peogendd is used for 
washing the head, and is carried as a small article of 
trade to those countries where these trees are not to be 
‘found. 
6. The flowers which fall in May are gathered by the 
common people, dried in the sun, roasted and eaten as 
good food. They are also bruised and boiled to a jelly, 
and made into small balls, which they sell or exchange 
for fish, rice, and various sorts of small grain. 
7. The skin is taken off from the ripe fruit as well as. the 
unripe, and after throwing away the unripe kernel, boiled 
‘to a jelly, and eaten with salt and capsicum. 
' 8. The leaves are boiled with water, and givenasa 
medicine in several diseases to both men and cattle. 
9. The milk of the green fruit and of the tender bark 
is given also as a medicine. 
y 10. The bark is used to cure the itch. 
“11. The wood is as hard and durable as Teak wood, 
but not so easily worked, nor is it procurable of such a 
length for beams and planks, except on clay-ground, 
where it grows to a considerable height, but in such 
a soil does not produce so many branches, and is less 
fruitful than when in a sandy or mixed soil, which is 
the best for them. In a sandy soil the branches shoot | 
Out nearer to the ground to a great circumference, and 
_Sive more fruit. | These trees require but a little atten- 
tion and watering. during the first two or three years in 
the-dry season, and being of so great use, we have here 
whole plantations of them. on high: and sandy grounds, 
where no other fruit tree will grow. 
‘12. We may still add, that the owls, squirrels, lizards, 
Country dogs.and jackals, take a share in the flowers, but 
the report is that the latter, especially in the time of blos- 
Som, are apt to grow mad by too much feeding on them. 
