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FIRST BOOK. 
Indies, found that the natives made a very strange 
use of these red seeds. They smeared their faces 
The Annatto Plant, with Flowers and Fruit. 
and bodies all over with the colour which they 
got from the waxy pulp. You see by this that 
annatto has been used as a dye for a very long 
time. It gives different shades of red and yellow, 
