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Children. This Fruit is wrap'd up in feveral Coverings ; 

 that which is about the Shell, is a Rind like that of green 

 Walnuts, by which they are knotted together like a Bunch 

 of Grapes. Another Rind wraps up the whole, which 

 opens when yellow and ripe, into two large Hemifpheroi- 

 des, three Foot long, and one in Breadth, according to the 

 Quantity of Fruit it contains. Father Ovalle fays, thefe 

 Trees never produce Fruit llngle, but that there muft be a 

 Female by the Male, but the inhabitants told me the con- 

 trary. 



The Fruit Trees carried thither from Europe, anfwer in &rtihT 

 that Country to perfection ; the Climate is fo fertile when 0'* 

 the Ground is water'd, that the Fruit is coming forward all 

 the Year. I have often feen the fame on one Apple-tree, 

 which we here fee in Orange-Trees, that is, Fruit of all 

 different Ages or Growths, in i Bloifom, knotted., fbrm'd" 

 Apples, half grown, and quite ripe, all together. 



A League and a Half N. E. from Valparaiso, is a little Wood, -. 

 Vale called La Vina a la Mar, or the Vineyard next the 

 Sea, where there are not only Trees fit for Fewel, whereof 

 Ships lay in their Store, tho' fomewhat remote, but alfo 

 to make Planks and Ledges ; and going up four or five 

 Leagues farther, there is Timber fit to build Ships. We 

 there cut Planks of a Sort of Bay-Tree, the Wood whereof 

 is white and very light ; of Bellota, another white Wood ; , 

 of Pewno, which is very brittle; and of Rauli, which is 

 the beft and fafteft. For Knee Timbers, there is the May- 

 ten, the Wood of it is hard, reddifii and faft. Champloret 

 le Brun, Captain of the Affwnption, whilft we were^there, 

 built a Bark of 3 6 Foot in the Keel, of the fame forts of 

 [Wood. 



In the fame Places is found the Molle, which the Indians MoK 

 call Ovighan, 01 Hainan, the Leaf of it is almoft like that 

 of the Acacia, its Fruit is a Clufter of little red Berries, 

 like the Dutch Goofeberries, bating that thefe turn black 

 as they ripen > it taftes of Pepper and Juniper. The In- 

 dians make Chicha or Drink of it, as good and as ftrong or 



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