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many yeares, and requires much moifturc , and a very 

 hote ground. Theyputafliesatthefooteof it, for the' 

 better entertaining t|jrof 3 and they make finall groves, 

 and very thicke , which are of great profit and revenue 

 vnto them ; for that it is the fruite they vfc moft at the 

 /W^andisgenerallin all places, although they (ay 

 the firft beginning comes from Ethiopia. And in trueth 

 the Negros vfe them much y and in fome places they 

 fervc them as bread,y ea they make wine of them.They 

 cate this fruite ravve like other fruits- they likewife roaft 

 it, and makertiany forts of potages, and conferves,and 

 inalhhingesit fcrveth very well. There is a kindeof 

 fmall Planes, white and very delicate, which in Hif]>4- 

 nioU they call Dominiqucs. There are others which arc 

 ftronger and bigger, and red of colour. There growesT 

 none in the kingdocne of Peru , but are brought from 

 the Indies^ as from Mexico , Cucrnavaca, and other val- 

 lies . Vpon the firme land , and in fome Hands there 

 are great ftore of Planes, like vnto thicke groves. If this 

 plant were fit for the fire, it were the moft profitable of 

 all others, but it is nothing fit,for neither the body nor 

 the boughs will burne , and much leffe will it fcrvc for 

 building, being a fappy wood, and without force. Yet 

 Don Alwze DArzJlU (as it is faid) vfed the leaves of this c 

 tree dried , to write a pai te of the Auricana,3x\& in truth 

 it may ferve for want of paper, feeing that the leafe is as 

 broade as a flieet of paper,or little lefle^and foure times 

 as long. 



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Of CACAO and Coca. CHAP. 22. 



,Lthough the Plane be the moft profitable.,yet that ( 

 CACAO is moft cfteerncd at Mexico , and the COCA in 



