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The juice of it dyes a very dark Violet, though it felf be as 

 clear as rock-water:nay when it is applied twice to the fame part 

 of the body which a man would dye, it makes the place appear 

 black. The Indians ufe it to fortifie the body, and to make it 

 more fupple before they go to the wars. They are alfo of a 

 perfwafion that this colour renders them more terrible to their 

 enemies. The tincture this Fruit gives cannot be taken away 

 with Soap 5 but after nine or ten days it difappears of it felf. 

 The Swine which eat of this fruit when it falls off the Tree, 

 have the flefh and fat of a violet colour, as hath been found by 

 experience. The fame thing hath been obferv'd in the flefti of 

 Parrots, and other Birds, when they have eaten of it. There 

 may be made of thefe Apples a drink pleafant enough, yet fuch 

 as is only us'd among the Indians and Hunts-men, who have no 

 fetled habitation. 



RAISIN. 



^I^He Raijin-tree^ or Vine^ which the Caribbians call Ouliem 3 

 JL grows up to a midling height, and creeps in a manner 

 along the ground on the Sea-fide : but in good ground, it 

 grows up high, as one of the moft delightful Trees of the Fa- 

 reft. The leaves of it are round, and thick, intermixt with 

 red and green. Under the bark of the trunk, having rais'd a 

 white fofc fubftartce about two inches thick , a man finds a 

 wood of a violet colour, folid, and fit for excellent pieces of 

 Joyners work. It bears in its branches fuch fruits, as when they 

 are ripe might be taken for great violet Grapes 3 but in ftead of 

 kernels, every Grape hath under a tender pellicle, and under a 

 very fmall fubftance, which is a little fowri(h 5 cooling, and of a 

 good tafte, a hard ftone like that of a Plumb. 



ACAJOU. 



THere are three kinds of Trees known by the name of 

 Acajou - 0 but of thofe, only that we (hall here defcribe 

 bears any fruit : 'Tisa Tree of no great height, fpreadingits 

 branches down towards the ground : The leaves of it are fair 

 and large, clofing to a roundnefs before, and divided by certain 

 veins. The flowers of it at the firft (hooting forth are white, 

 but afterwards they become incarnate, and of a purple colour : 

 They grow in tufTes andbufhes, and they fend forth fo fweet a 

 fcent, that it is eafie t® diftinguim the Tree which bears them : 

 Thefe flowers fall not till they are thruft off by a kind of Cheft- 

 tiut^ much after the form of an Ear, or a Hares kidney. When 

 thhchefinut is come to its growth, there is fram'd under it a 

 very fair Apple, fbmewhat long, which is crown'd with that 

 as a creft, which as it ripens becomes of an Olive- colour, while 



