giveu to prevent their falling ou the side, hy 

 wltkifithey maybe hunt* 

 tli^ tiad:?^ <^ ^ felan^ of T^lilti, in one of 



their traditions, ascribe the origin of the cocoa- 

 nut to its having grown from the head of a man : 

 they have similar traditions for tlie origin of the 



Th&tik at€t other ^edes of tlhe cocoas. The 



C. hutipYicea^ a nativ^^ South America, tlie 

 C. gimimsis, aculeata, nt/jm. Sec. Sec. all of which 

 yiekl a fixed oil in use for various jjurposos. 

 Lionel Wafer, (I680,) wiien at the Island Co- 



noiSij attributes iiijiipi^ effectd fot an iadiacri- 

 mmata use of the water of the eoeoa-nut b}^ some 

 of Ms crew, by which that beverage was found 

 unfit for a joUification ; for he says, Nor did 

 w ^ i(^3eoa^nixt&^ easing whM vm would, 

 md Mnkm$^ isSCk ; ewa^mmA hmixe6s 

 of them oil hm^- Soiae or other of mt mM 

 went ashor(^ ever}- day ; and one day, among the 

 rest, being minded to make themselves very 

 meiTy, they went ashore, and cnt dfown a great 

 imany <!t>ML^traed, from which they ^th^f^ed ^h^ 

 iVuit, and drew about twenty gallons of milk. 

 Then they all sat down, and drank heahhs to tln^. 

 king, queen, Sec. They drank an excessive 

 quantity ; yet it did not end in drunkenness. 



