AT JAVA. 1751- HI 



ks a fallad, when prepared with vinegar, fait* 

 and oil. The nut is filled with a pale, fweet 

 water, which turns four if it is not drunk foon 

 after the nut is opened. Every nut contains 

 about a pint, or fomewhat more, of this wa- 

 ter. We ufed it for fome weeks, whilit it was 

 frefli, inftead of tea.. It is faid that this juice, 

 if it is ufed as water to wafh one's felf, gives a 

 fine complexion. When the nut grows old, 

 the water congeals into a fpungy white kernel, 

 from which, after the fhell is opened, fome 

 leaves fpring up, which keep very long with- 

 out putting the nut into the ground or water- 

 ing it. A hundred nuts colt a pefo duro, or 

 Spanijh dollar. The trees flood along the 

 fhore in low places, and were very plentiful. 

 Authors fay very circumftantially, that this 

 tree affords cloaths, meat and drink, houfes, 

 or huts, utenfils or houfehold implements, and 

 other inilruments, to the natives. To the lafl 

 mentioned purpofe the item is of ufe ; out of 

 the branches they make the arched entrances 

 to their huts, to which they fallen flowers on 

 their wedding-days : the leaves are made ufe 

 of for thatching, fails, balkets, brooms, and 

 may be wrought upon with bamboo nails : 

 the kernel and water of the nut afford them 

 their meat and beverage : the outward fhell 

 Vol. I. i» affords 



