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he faw aRaddiffi which a Man with both Arms could fcarcc embrace; and that, 

 under the fhade of their Leaves,Horfes might ftand. But of all the feruan Fruit the 

 Cocoa is the crown, which grows on Trees of a Fathom long in hot and moift 

 Grounds of the Valleys between Andes and Sierra ; from whence it is carried to the 

 Sea-Coaft in long Baskets by Companies of three or four thoufand at a time on the 

 Backs of the Sheep <Pacos. Before the Spaniards coming hither none might chew 

 Cocoa without the Governor's leave: A handful thereof chew'd and fuck'dinthe 

 Mouth, enables a Man to travel two days without any other Suftenance, and mix'd 

 with burnt Bones or Chalk,it is accounted an excellent Difli ; there is fuch extraordi- 

 nary plenty of them.that the Inhabitants fpend yearly 90000 Baskets of the Leaves 

 in Pottage. ThePeriMiu alfo efteem Mamayes, a Fruit which grows round, not un- 

 like a Peach, with two Stones, hard Rinds, and a well-rellifh'd Pulp within/which 

 dipt in Sugar is a great Dainty ; they grow for the moft part in the Iflands. The 

 Guaiyavas bears a wholfom and delicious Fruit like a large Plumb. The Ttlto, a 

 Tree with many Boughs, bears a Fruit refembling a Pear, having a hard Rind, and 

 within the Pulp a great Stone. The Fruit which grows on the Annona hath out- 

 wardly the fame fhape, but white within, and hath many black Kernels, which 

 tafte very delicioufly. The Fruit Jndas, fo call'd from the defolate Perum Moun- 

 tains on which they grow, referable the forcmention'd Cocoa, but differ from the 

 E*/r-Jn^n,becaufethey arefullof hard fhell'd Almonds.the like whereof grows on 

 the Tree Cachapoyas , which are not inferior to any European Fruits that grow on Trees; 

 in that part of Peru which hath its Name from that Fruit is the beft fort, being ex- 

 ccedingly devour'd by Monkies, who plucking the Cachapoya Almonds from their 

 Stalks, throw them on the Ground to break their prickly Shells, that fo they may 

 eat the Kernels without hurt. The M/fc-Tree, being a fort of Grapes, furnifhes 

 with Wine. But the greateft benefit the Inhabitants receive is by their Sheep Tarn 

 and Moromoros, which carry great Loads, and feed on what they find by the Way j 

 their Flefli is good and wholfom,and being either Smoak'd or Salted, keeps good a 

 confiderable time ; their Wool drefs'd affords Cumbi, of which they make fine 

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