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Thcfc Trees arc exceedingly diffcrcot amongft themfclves i 
lbr,lbme flioot jup in 2 or 3 bodies 5 others in ooe. as this^Their 
Leaves arc maby of them dead, and moft difcblour'd, unlefs 
on very youDg Trees. They are not at all beautiful, nor fo a- 
grecable to the Eye, as the Fruit is to the Palate of them that 
love Ghocolatto. The number of Codds the Tree produces 
is uncertain But we reckon, a bearing Tree yields from 2 
CO 8 pound of nuts a year 5 and each Codd contains from ^oto 
3© nuts* 
The Manner of Curing themtis j to cut them down whco 
they are ripe, and to lay them to fweat j or 4 daycs. in the 
Codds 5 which is done by laying them on hea^^^^^^ After th!$ 
they cut the codds, and take out the nuts, and put them into 
a trough cover d with plantan-leaves, where they fweat again 
about 16 er 20 days. The nuts that are in each codd, arc knit 
together by certain fibres, and have about them a white kind 
of pulp, tbatV agreeable to the palate. By the turning and 
fwetting their little ftrings arc broken,and the pulp is imbibed 
and mingled with thefubftance of the nut. After this, they 
are put to dry 3 or 4 weeks in the Sun, and then they 
become of a rcddilh dark colour , as you fecj and fo are 
cured* 
What is remarkable in this Fruit is,that the Codds grow on- 
ly out of the Body or great Limbs arid boughs 5 and that at 
the fame time, and inthe fome place^there are bloffbms jouog 
and ripe fruir« 
Th^fe Trees bear at different timcs5the greateft crop at moft 
of our Cacao-walks is ia bece^ker 2^v\d January. Bur atone 
of ColpneiiV&6^r^ walks, when was tak^n^they 
yet its not above 5 miles from thofe walks, 
which bear alwaies in Deeember i But tbofc that bear 
then, .have fome fruit mMay:^ as thc'otherbavein December. 
; It's planted firft iothel^ur, ajwaies under fhade; Some do 
J^^^^M^^ fomeintbe 
Woods. The Spaniards uftd a certaki large tody pWnf , 
eallM by them Madn di Cmm : We only tb others ; and (el- 
domtraafplant^ only whereit ikils, ash doth maoy fim€sin(^-" 
P^Pj poor and dry Jaadi : for, ihi&Tree reqwircs^ to faeih^^- 
