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affords cloathing, painting-brumes, &c. If an 

 incifion is made into any bough, a clear juice 

 runs from the wound in the night time, which 

 makes fyrup and vinegar if properly prepared. 

 Without this juice of cocoa no arrack can be 

 made : and the Chinefe, for this reafon, are 

 obliged to buy this liquor here. The Indian* 

 breakfaft on the kernel of the cocoa-nut, fa- 

 goe-bread and dried fifh : but thofe of higher 

 rank add fome boiled rice. The {hell is ufed 

 like Areca, for chewing, but firft they mix it 

 with Betel and chalk: it is likewife put into 

 water, and afterwards they make a milk of it, 

 which they call Santar, in which they boil 

 herbs, cabbage, rice and fifties: this milk 

 turns four in one night. If it is mixed with 

 a certain quantity of water and boiled in a 

 pot, it lofes its white colour ; and when all the 

 water is gone off, a pure oil remains, which it 

 is faid is as clear and fweet as oil of olives ; 

 it is ufed as butter, and is a very nutritive 

 food. Both men and women anoint them- 

 felves with cocoa oil, both againft certain dif- 

 eafes, and becaufe it is famionable to have 

 black hair. The ladies of Java and Balaya 

 mix part of the root of turmerick (Curcuma 

 Xinn.) with it, which gives a luftre to their 

 complexions. The Fortuguefe doctors pre- 

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