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too considerable not to contain ufeful qualities if fairly in- ' 

 veiligated by men endued with fcience. 1 have feveral times 

 mentioned in the hiftory of the Galla, that this and the 

 coffee-tree have divine honours paid them by each and all 

 of the feven nations. Under this tree their king is chofen ; 

 under this tree he holds his firft council, in which he marks 

 his enemies, and the time and manner in which his own 

 foldiers are to make their irruption into their country. 

 His fceptre is a bludgeon made of this tree, which, like a 

 mace, is carried before him wherever he goes ; it is pro- 

 duced in the general meetings of the nation, and is called 

 Buco. 



The wood is clofe and heavy, the bark thick ; there is 

 then a fmall quantity of white wood, the reft is dark brown 

 and reddifh, not unlike the laburnam,and the buco is ftript 

 to this lafl appearance, and always kept plentifully anoint- 

 ed with butter. 



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