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Ipfa ingem arbos, faciemque fimillima tauro y 

 Et, fi non alium late jaffaret odor em, 

 Laums erat. folia hand ullis labentia mentis % 

 Tlos apprima tenax ; animas, & olentia Medi 

 Or a foment illo, & fenibus medicantur anhelis. 



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Thus Englifh'd by Mr. Vryden, 



Large is the Plant, and like r&Xaurel grows, 

 And did it not a different Scent difcloie, 

 A Laurel were ; the fragrant flowers contemn 

 The ftormy Winds, tenacious of their Stem* 

 With this the Medes to lab'ring Age bequeath 

 New Lungs > and cure the Sowrnefs of the Breath, 



This Tree among the Indians is dedicated to the Cere- 

 monies of Peace. When they concluded the Peace with 

 the Spaniards, in the Year 1643, they kilPd many of the 

 Country Sheep, of which we wi\\ fpeak hereafter; they 

 dipp'dinto their Blood a Branch of this Cinnamon, which 

 the Deputy of the Caciques deliver' d into the Spanijh Ge- Ceremony at 

 neral the Marquis de Baydes's Hand, in Token of Peace. 

 This Ceremony, tho' pra&is'd by Savages, is not without 

 an Example in Holy Writ, Exod. Chap. xii. and S. Paul to 

 the Hebrews, Chap. ix. fays. When Mofes had fpoken every 

 Precept to all the People according to the Law, he took the 

 Blood of Calves and of Goats, with Water , and Scarlet Wool^ 

 and Hyffop, and fprinkled both the Book and alVthe People, 

 faying; 7 his is the Blood of the Teflament which God hath 

 enjoined unto you* 



There is a very common Tree, called Liffi, the Shade l&K 

 whereof caufes the Bodies of thofe who deep under it to mm Tm * 

 fwell, as happened to a Sea Officer, who had flept fome 

 Hours in the Shade of the faid Tree; his Face fwell'd fo 

 high, that he could not fee. To cure this Diftemper, they 

 take an Herb call'd Pellboqui, being a Sort of Rindweed, 

 ©r Ground-Ivy, or Winter-Cherry, which they pound 



