the South-Sea. z 



cc Bottom of the Stem there are five Leaves narrow and 

 " ft iff, fix Inches long. 



In the Woods there are alfo Mahault, or Mangrove- FUwu 

 trees, the Bark whereof confiding of very long Fibres, 

 ferves to make Ropes of. There is a Tree very fiqgular 

 for its Figure, which has given it the Name of the Flam- 

 beau, or Prickly-candle : Its Leaves are actually made like 

 a Branch of four Candles ; that is, the Bottom of it is a 

 Crofs rounded at the Angles : They grow like thofe of 

 the Raquette, one out of another : They are from eight to 

 fifteen Foot long, and produce a Fruit which much refem- 

 bles a Fig, or green Walnut. There are abundance of 

 them in Peru, being fix-fided, as Father du Tertre has repre« 

 fented them in his Hiftory of the Caribbee Iflands. The 

 Manzanilla Tree is fomewhat more rare there : It is one # 

 of the moft venomous Trees that are known, producing 

 an Apple beautiful to the Eye, which is Poifon. From its 

 Bark proceeds a fort of Milk, whofe Venom Seamen have 

 often Experience of: If in cutting of Wood to burn, they 

 happen to light upon this, and that the faid Milk flies on 

 their Faces, or that they handle the Wood, immediately the 

 Part fwells, and pains them for feveral Days. When the 

 Manzanilla 'x drop into the Sea, and the Fiflies eat them, 

 their Teeth turn yellow and they become poifonous. 



The Fiftiery is plentiful in many little Creeks of the E/hery. 

 Illand, and of "the'Continent, where there is Conveniency 

 for carting a Net. We there took Fifties from four to five 

 Foot long, very delicious, fomewhat fhaped like Carps, 

 whofe Scales were larger than a Crown Piece. Some 

 have them round, and they are call'd Meros ; others have 

 them fquare, and are call'd Salemerd's in Portugueze, and 

 Piraguera's by the Indians. There is a fmaller Sort call'd 

 Quiareo, which have a Bone in the Head exactly like a 

 great Bean ; not to mention an infinite Number of Mullets, 

 Carangue's, Machorans, Rock-fiih, Grunters, Gurnets, 

 Pilchards, &c. 



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