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to be the moronobea coccinea, furnishes but a 

 small quantity of the substance employed in the 

 trade with Angostura. The greatest part comes 

 from the mararo or caragna, which is an amyris. 

 It is remarkable enough, that the name mani, 

 which Aublet heard from the Galibis * of Cay- 

 enne, was again found by us at Javita, three 

 hundred leagues distant from French Guyana. 

 The moronobea or symphonia of Javita yields a 

 yellow resin ; the caragna ^ a resin strongly 

 odoriferous, and white as snow ; the latter be- 

 comes yellow, where it is adherent to the inter- 

 nal part of old bark. 



We went every day to see if our canoe ad- 

 vanced on the portages. Twenty-three Indians 



* The Galibis or Caribis (the r has been changed into I, 

 as often happens) are of the great stock of the Caribbee 

 nations. The products useful in commerce and in domestic 

 life have received the same denomination in every part of 

 America, which this warlike and commercial people have 

 overrun. (See above, vol. iii, p. 284). 



+ Caranna. Are not the substances known by this name 

 at the Oroonoko partly gums ? I was assured at Esme- 

 ralda, that savage nations, living to the east of the high 

 mountain of Duida, eat the caranna. This name is given to 

 very different plants. I regret not having been able to 

 make any chemical researches on the nature of the juices, 

 which transude from the trees of the Oroonoko. The resins 

 belong principally to the coniferae and the terebinthaceee > 

 the gum-resins (cambogia, assafoetida) to the guttiferae and 

 the umbelliferae ; and the gums to the leguminaceae and the 

 rosaceae. 



