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to write miracles, in that ityccldeth water, wine, oyle/ 

 vineger,honny, lirropc, threedc, needles , andathou- 

 fand other things. It is a tree which the Indians eftecmc 

 niuchinnewSjto/w, &havc commonly in their dweI- ! 

 lings fome one of them for the maintenauncc of life it 

 grows in the fields, and hath great and large leaves ? at 

 {the end whereof is aftrong&fliarp point, which ferves 

 to faften little pins,or to fowe as a needlc-& they draw 

 out of this kafc as it were a kinde of threed which they 

 vfc. They cut thcbody which is big, when it is tender, 

 wherein is a great hollownefle, by which the fubftancc 

 mounts from the root, and is a liquor which they drink 

 likewater,beingfwcet&frefh . This liquor being fod- 

 den,turnes like wine, which growes to vineger,fuffring 

 it to fowre, and boyling it more, it becomes as hony ,& 

 boyling it halfe,it lerves as firrope .v whichas healthful! 

 enough,.and of good tafte- in my Judgement it is bet 

 ter then the firropeof raiffns. Thus doe they boyle this 

 liquor, and vfe it in diverfe fortes, whereof they drawc 

 a good quantitie, for that in fome feafbn they draw dai 

 ly fome pots ofthis liquor. There are alib of thefe trees 

 in Peru, but they are not fb profitableas in new Sfaine-. 

 . The wood of this tree is hollow and fo ft, and ferves to 

 keepe fire, like to the match of a i harquebuze, and pre- 

 ierves it long; I have feeue the Induins vfe it to that end. 

 TheT^^//isaDotherfamoustreeinnew5^4/^ .- if 

 we may call a tree a heape of leaves gathered together 

 one vpon another, it is the ftrangcft ftfhiond tree of all 

 other D for firft there grows one leafeout of the ground, 

 then another vpon it, and fo one vpon one, tillit com- 

 ineth to his pei fedion; bnt as the leaves growe vp,and 

 on the fides, thofe vnderncath doe become grear,and 

 loofe in a manner the forme of leaves 5 making a bodie 



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