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willbeea thing of muche delight, fortheprofite that it. 
bringeth in Phificke, and for the noueltie of the tree, for 
ar all tymes it hath averye good ſmell. brought into thys 
Countrey ablacke woman, vrhich L bought in Xerez de le: 
Frontera, and there did appeare yppon her when ſhee came 
hether certeine olde fores in her legs, which were of long 
continuaunce, and comming to the Ilande of the Marga- 
reta, and beeing verye forrowefull for the ſores which my 
blacke woman had, an Indian tolde mee that hee woulde 
heale her, and ſeeing that fhee had no other remedy, I de- 
liuered her to the culſodie of the Indian, that hee mygie 
heale her for mee and immediately hee tookea fruite which 
is common in that Countrey, and all people ingenerall doe 
eate it, which is of the greatneſſe of an Orenge, and it hath 
cure with 
a ſtone like vnto a Peache. This ſtone the Indian did burne, 
and made it into pouder, for the ſtone is harde, and cannot 
bee grounde, without burning of it: and hee caſte the pow- 
der of it into the fores, which thee had full of much rotten 
fleſn, and very filthy, which withthe pouder, were made 
cleane and verye well, and it tooke outall the rotten fleſn 
to the bone, and after it was cleane with lynte anda 
lyttle powder layde too it, they began to be filled withnew 
efh,vntill they were full of fleſhe, and fhe was healed very 
well. And it is to bee conſidered, that the little kernell of 
the ſtone hath fo much venom, and malice im it, that if anie 
perſon or beaite doo eateit, hee dieth foorthwith without 
remedye, as though hee had eaten anye manner of venom 
corſiue, as Sublimatum, or any other poyſon. 
la the Towne of Poſco where I dwelt certeyne yeres, 
be fweate of there was an Indian, which did cure the Indians, andthe 
