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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 expressed, 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 tish, 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 given as a 

 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. 



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 

 give 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. 



