108 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWED. 



sure our readers will be glad to share our find with us : 

 " The Portugals possesse a certain country in America called 

 Morpian, which is ful of very good fruits, and among the 

 rest the Nana or Pinas. There is also growing a tree 

 whose fruit they call cobyne, having leaves like to those of 

 the bay-tree, and fruit as bigge as a melon, formed like 

 unto an estridge egg, which, although it is not eaten by 

 any of them, yet is very beautifull hanging on the tree. 

 The savages used to make drinking cuppes of them, but 

 besides that they commit idolatry therewith, which is 

 wonderfull and to be lamented, for having emptyed and 

 made hollow these iruites, they fill them with the seeds 

 of milium or some such thing, which, being shaken with 

 one's hand or withe the winde, will make a noyse; then 

 do they fasten a pole into the ground and sticke this 

 fruite full of those seede on the toppe thereof, and fasten 

 about it the most beautifull feathers of birdes they can 

 get. Every house hath two or three of these fruits decked 

 up in this manner sticking on the jpoles, which they have 

 in great reverence, thinking some god to be in them, 

 because when they are shaken they make a noyse." 



