A True and Exti5f Htflory 



PeriNtf. 



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drinks 



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drinks 



roots have a moift quality in them, and are the caufe of Hy dropick hu- 

 mours. Mr. Phillip Be/I^then ths Govcrnour of the Ifland^ told me that 

 when he was Governourof the lOe of Trovidarce^ that there chancd 

 Ibnie Spa/1/ards to land there, and tafting of this drink, wondred that 

 any of thofe that continually drink it were alive , lb unwholfome and 

 Hy dropick he conceived this drink to be. 



Another drink they have which is accounted much wholfomer, 

 though not altogether fb pleafant, and that is Fm/;<? 5 a drink vyhich 

 the I//cIiaf7s make for their own drinking, and is made of the Cajjavy 

 root, which I told you is a ftrong poyfon 5 and this they caufe their 

 old wives, who have a {mall remainder of teeth, to chaw and fpitout 

 into water, (for the better breaking and macerating of the root). This 

 juyce in three or four hours will work , and purge it felf of the poy- 

 Ibnous quality. 



Having (hewed you, in the making of Bread, that the moyfture be- 

 ing prelfs'd out,which is accounted the poylbnous quality that root has, 

 by drying and baking it is made uleful and wholfome , and now 

 having the juyce and root both ufed, and both thefe put into water, 

 which is moift, I know not which way to reconcile thefe dired con- 

 traries, but this 5 that the poyfbn of the old womens breath and teeth 

 having been tainted with many feveral poxes , (a difeafe common 

 amongfl: them, though they have many and thebefi cures for it,) are 

 foch oppofites to the poyfon of the C^jJ'^^z;/, as they bend their forces 

 fo vehemently one againft another, as they bothfpend their poyfonous 

 qualities in that conflift , and fo the relid of them both, becomes lels 

 unwholfome 5 and the water, which is in it felf pure, cafts out the re- 

 mainder of the ill qualities they leave behind ; which is manifefted by 

 the extraordinary working, which is far beyond that of Beer, Wine, 

 or Sider with us in Europe. This drink will keep a month or two, being 

 put into barrels, and taftes the likeft to Englijh beer of any drink we 

 have there. 



Grzppo is a third fort of drink, but few make it well , it was never 

 my chance to tafte it, which made me the lels curious to enquire 

 after it. 



r;/;7c/j is a fourth fort, andofthatIhavedrunk5 it is made of water 

 and fugar put together,which in ten dayes ftanding will be very ftrong, 

 and fit for labourers. 



A fifth, is made of wild Plumbs, which grow here in great abun- 

 dance, upon very large trees, which being prels'd, and ftrayned , give 

 a very (harp, and poynant flaver , but there is not much of it made , 

 becaufo of the trouble of making it, and they are not there very indul- 

 gent to their palats. 



But the drink of the Plantine^; is far beyond all thefe, gathering j 

 them full ripe, and in the height of their fweetnefi , we pill off the 

 skin, and ma(h them in water well boyl'd 5 and after we have let them 

 Ray there a night, wcftrainit, dnd bottle it up, and in a week drink 

 it ; and it is very ftrong and plealant drink, but it is to be drunk but 

 fparingly, for it is much ftrongcr than Sack, and is apt to mount up into 

 the head. 



The feventh fort of drink is that we make of the skimming of fu- 

 gar, which is infinitely ftrong, but not very plealant in tafte 5 it is com- 

 mon, and therefore the Icfs efteem'd, the value of it is half a Crown 



