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an early trade is recorded with India and Batavia in letters by 
the Officers of the Factories of the East India Company in 1638— 
“the Blessing would be dispatched to Surat within five days, 
carrying calicoes, saltpetre, ‘ sappan-wood,’ ’’* ‘* from 
Battavia for this place three ships commanded by Vanderbrooke 
were dispeeded,”’ two of which, viz., second and third ship arrived 
the 30th of October, and having landed here ‘‘ sapon-wood, 
sandall, nutmeggs, elephant’s teeth.’’+ It will be noted in these 
letters that the name ‘‘ brazil ’’ is not used, nor does it occur in 
Foster’s works from 1618. 
Some particulars of the present day trade in this wood, with 
references to literature, etc., are given in Kew Bulletin, Add. 
Series IX. part 2, 1911, p. 252. 
Caesalpinia echinata, Lam. Encycl. Method. i. (1783), p. 461. 
(of the period after 1500; Pomet, 1694; Barham, 1794); 
- ue a? ‘ec ce buco ” Wood; 
name in Brazil.’ He concludes his enumeration of five sorts 
as follows :—‘‘ Likewise that which makes so many different kinds 
of ‘ Brasil-wood’ is nothing else but the several places and 
difference of the soil where the wood grows,”’ and “ As to 
the ‘ Brasil chips’ the best account I can give you of it is to trust 
Brazilians calling it ‘Tbira itanga. . .’’ This wood is used 
among the dyers, and the stationers make red ink of it.’”? Lunan 
20 years later, quotes Barham; but in the course of another 
20 years or so this wood seems to have been losing its imporee 
as according to Thomson,** it was being superseded from abou 
1828 by “‘camwood ”’ from West Africa, At the Exposition 
* William Fremlin at Gombroon to the Company, Jan. 13th, 1638; Foster, 
The English Factories in India, 1637-1641 p. 40. 39; 
t President —— and others at Surat to the Company, Dec. pe 
t Pomet’s figure of . iii. Paris, 
* gure of the tree, however—Hist. Gen. des Drogues, 
1694, p. 119; English edition, London, 1725, p. 53, t. 24, appears to be a 
or less fanciful and does not correctly portray any Brazil Wood tree 
own. 
§ lc. Eng. ed. p. 68, 
| Hortus Americanus (1794), p. 23. 
a Hortus Jamaicensis, i, (1814), p. 111. 
Chemistry of Organic Bodies—Vegetables (1838), p- 410. 
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