head; give great eafeto the head-ach, as I have tried in my felf t 
and it istheonely iemedy of the Indians and Negro s. 
%i. About the Manchinel-Ttee, I fhall only fay, it is a wood of 
an excellent grain,equaliing the Jamaica : wood, but large to four 
foot Diameter. The Spaniards turn it into beds, and the Engltfl) 
ufually flour their rooms with it in Jamaica - 7 yet it is as ma- 
lignant, I am told, as 'tis defcnbed. 
22. The Birds, called by fome Fregati, we call Men of wars 
i their fat is good againft aches, &c 3 fo is that of Allegators, or 
; thefliell-fiftijCall'd Soldaispi Souldiers. 
23. Of the finning or Fire-flies there is a great difference in 
Hijpaniola and Jamaica, as to bignefs. They can contrail and 
expand their Light as they fly, I am fure 3 and their light con- 
tinues fome days after they are dead: So that I am not of their 
mind P who affirm, that 'tis the flammula cordis in their tail. 
24. The Wood- lice will eat Covers and Books,though printed, 
as I found to my coft. Of their eating of Timber, it is ttue they 
will eat fome forts of Timber, but not all. 
25. Of the Cirons or Chegos enough is faid by Ligon. I knew a 
X man who burnt his Negro alive, becaufe he was over-run with 
them. When they come among the nervous and membranous 
mparts, they are very painful, and not to be pull'd out, left your 
needle touch the nerves > and in other places the hole you cut, 
to take them out, equals a peafe. 
26. I could never hear of any Hurrican about Jamaica 3 yet 
Vincent le Blanc faith, he was in one not far from it. I enquired of 
fome, that had been in ffurricans, if it were fo cold then, as the 
faid Vincent relates it < They faid, they had not found it to be fo 
cold 3 but yet in comparifon of other times, it was much colder 
then. I enquired of the nature of thofe Tempefts, whether the 
wind varied all the points of the Comfafs, as tis faid? They an- 
fwer'dyNo 3 but it began always with a Noth-wind, and when it 
cameEaft, itceafed: but betwixt the North and Eaft-point it 
varied fo faft, and with fu^ch a violent guft always, that it was im- 
poflible for any fliip in the water to anfwer the Vering of the 
wind: Whence ithapned, that the backs of the ftiips are 
broken, and the Sails carried by the boord the mafts. I faw a vef- 
fel of about 400 tun, whofe back was biokcn, and flie laid up at 
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