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Tree ! The Spamard anfwer'd, Yes, a 

 frefti-water Mangrove : Yet he faid it was 

 a very fmall Tree, which the Mangrove is 

 hot, unlefs this fhould be a Dwarf kind of 

 it. .We brought away with us. feveral 

 Bundles of this Bark, and I found it to be 

 the riglut fort, by the frequent ufe I made 

 of it in Virginia and elfewhere •* and I have 

 fome of it now by me. 

 Pepper. They have two forts of Pepper^ tfie one 

 called Beit-Pepper the other Bird-Pepper % 

 and great quantities of each, much ufed by 

 the Indians. Each fort grows on a Weed, 

 or Shrubby Bu(h about a Yard high. The 

 Bird-Pepper has the final ler Leaf, and is ; by 

 the Indians better efteemed than the other, 

 for they eat a great deal of it., 

 kzi-Wood. There is* on the Main a Red fort of Wood 

 that might be of good ufe for Dyers. It 

 grows moftly towards the North-Sea Coaft, 

 upon a River that runs towards the SambaU 

 loes^ about two Miles from the Sea-fhpre. I 

 faw there great quantities of thefe Trees 1 

 They are thirty or forty Foot high, about 

 as big as ones Thigh,, and the out-fide is 

 all along full of Cavities or Notches in the 

 Bark. When the Wood is cut, it appears 

 of a YellowHh Red. With this, and a kind 

 of Earth which they have up the Country, 

 the Indians dye Cottons for their Hammocks 

 and Gowns. I tried a little of it, which up- 

 fan boiling two Hours in fair Water, ttiriid 



