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may be perceiucd by the figure,wherby very eafily they go vp and down to gather the fruit at their 

 oleafure The top of the tree is diuided into fundry branches, in fubftance like to the great cane ; 

 whereupon do grow fairc flaggy leaues like thofe of the Palmeor Date tree,whereof doubtlcife it 

 is a wild kind ifrom the bottom of which branches comes forth fruit in long branches like traces 

 of Onions,coucred with a foft pulp like vnto the walnut 5 rougb,and very fill of hairc ofa yellowiiH 

 colour, and like the dried date when it is ripe : within which huske is contained fruit like vn:o the 

 Kutmegjbut greater, very hard,and ftripedouerwith red and white veins or finues. 



^f 'The Place, Time, And Names. 



This Date trcc,\vhich the Arabians call EaufdjStet is by interptetation,^//^//4^4/^^/V^ the In- 

 dian nut or fiIbcrd,^/</rt7*and Serapiocall Filfcl and Fufel. Itgrowethin the Eaft Indies in diuers 

 and fundry places^as in Malauar,vvhere vulgarly it is called Pac .*and of the Nobles & gentlemen^ 



/fmv/- which name 



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ic is called Cupxrt : in ZeiIan,Pftfs : in Malaca 3 P//4^ : in Cochin y C hac/wi : ir. ^i.,^*^ %.**umwi« 



Date trce,\vhich name \vc hauc coined from his qualitie,becaufe the fruit makes one drunkc that 



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The fruit ofAreca before it be ripe is reckoned among the ftupefa&iue andaftonifhing medi- 



the fences. 



When the Indians are vexed with fome intolerable ache 

 fome great tormentor torture, they eat of this fruit,wherb) 

 they fliould feelers very much mitigated. 



doth exceedingly amafe and aftonifh 



is the gums, fattens the teeth, comforts the 

 blond garhereomthin the fane. " ' "' ' * ** a ""° pU ' Se "* ^ fiom ""W" 



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height j wherefore the fXns^^S^h^if f°f >V ? d of f bou & hs or bra "ches ofa great 



like thofe of the Date tree,ta broad aid Zne « ;£"' • ! ° D v t0f> ° f , the ttce S™ th <= '««« 

 JufiiKfii : among thefc leaues come fotth SS? n t rl ¥ their ""P*.* <"<> filch 



™.nto great ftt.it ofa round fi£^tt&?« eM?" 'J 8 *"" tree ' Which 



" one hole/omtintes wo bored thronah • rhisNur ™ £,;,° ! *! ? hat end nm vnt ° the tree 



".bftanee not vnlik-e to hemp bcfS'e beaKn foft X" Z'^J" * C °T mrecon fi "'"S of 

 "o the ft n , ik(: vmo F[ax g e 't^eaten fof } there .salfo a finer and gentler ftaffe «xt 



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