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V. An Account of the true Cortex Winteramis, 
and the Tree that bears it. By Hans Sloan 1 
M. D. and S. K. S. 
ON E of the Ships which went out with Sir Francis 
Drake, when he went round the World, where- 
of Captain Winter was Commander, brought into Eng- 
land from the Straits of Magellan ah Aromatic Bark , 
which had been very helpful to thofe of his Ship, both 
ufed inftead of other Spices, with their Meat, and as a 
Medicine very powerful againft the Scurvy. Clufim , 
from fome that came over in that Ship, defcribea and 
figures it in his Exotics, lib. 4. c. 1. p. 75. calling it , 
Cortex Winteranus, from the Commander of the Ship 
his Name, and the Tree Magellanica Aroma tica Arbor, il. 
p. 77. The Writer of the Journal of the Dutch Ships, 
that went to the Straits of Magellan about 1599. takes 
notice of it to grow there, calling it ( De Bry. Iud. 
Occid. />. 9. p. 1 8.) Lauro Jimilis arbor licet procerior, 
Cortice piperis modo acri, & mordenti. And Sebald de 
Wert, who was there, fays, that both Leaves and Bark 
were ufed with their Meat and Muskles,to correct them 
in fo cold a Climate. Dalechampius, in the Hijloria 
Lugd. defcribes and figures this Bark likewife, under 
the Name of Cortex Winteranus, p. 1858. and fodoes 
Parkinfon, p. 1652. Cafpar Bauhin, in his Pin p. 461. 
calls it Laurifolia Magellanica Cortice acri. And Jon/Ion, 
in his Dendrologia , p. 232. Arbor Laurifolia Magella- 
nica. Thofe likewife who pafled the Magellanic Straits 
with Sir John Narborough about 1669. t0 °k notice of 
this Tree and Bark, But no body that I have feen has 
given fo good or full an Account cf it as Mr. George 
Handifyd, who came from thence about two or three 
Years 
