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store, copall, or suchicopal, which is another kinde, storax 

 and incenso, which have excellent operations, and have a 

 very good smell, fit for fumigations. Likewise the Tacam- 

 ahaca and Carafia, which are also very medicinall. They bring 

 likewise from this Province oyle of grease which they call 

 aveto, and which the Physicians and Painters vse much, the 

 one for plasters, the other to varnish their pictures. They 

 br ng also for the Physicians Cassia fistula, the which growes 

 plentifully in Santo Domingo. It is a great tree, which carries 

 these canes as his fruite. They brought in the fleete wherein 

 I carne from Santo Domingo fortie eight quintalles of Cassia 

 fistula. Sarsaparilla 1 is not lesse knowne, for a thousand 

 remedies wherein it is vsed. There came in the same fleete 

 fiftie quintalles from the same Hand. There is much of 

 this Sarsaparilla at Peru, and most excellent in the Pro 

 vince of Guayaquil, which is vnder the Line. Many go to 

 be cured into this Province, and it is the opinion of some, 

 that the pure water onely which they drinke, gives them 

 health, for that it passeth by rootes as I have said, from 

 whence it drawes this vertue, so as there needes no great 

 covering or garments to make a man sweate in that coun- 

 trie. The w r ood of Guayacan, which they call Lignum sanc 

 tum, or Indian wood, growes aboundantly in the same 

 Hands, and is as heavie as yron, so as it presently sinkes in 

 the water ; heereof they brought in the same fleete 350 

 quintalls, and they might have brought twentie, yea, a 

 hundred thousand of this wood, if there were vse for it. 

 There came in the same fleete, and from the same Hand, 

 130 quintalles of Bresill wood, the which is fierie red, so 

 well knowne, and much vsed in dying and other things. 

 There are at the Indies infinite numbers of other aroma- 

 ticall woodes, gurnmes, oyles, and drugges, so as it is not 

 possible to name them all, neither doth it now much import. 

 I say onely, that in the time of the Kings Yncas of Cusco, 

 1 See my translation of Cieza de Leon, pp. 200, 395. 



