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Silk and other Cotton. 
ing the Cotton breaks forth. It may be of 
life for fluffing of Pillows , or the like ; 
but elfe is of no value, any more than that 
of the great Cotton-tree. I took of thefe 
Cods before they were quite ripe, and laid 
them in my Cheft ; and in two or three 
days they would open and throw out the 
Cotton. Others I have bound faft: with 
Strings, fo that the Cod could not open ; 
and in a few Oays after, as foon as I flack- 
ncd the String never fo little , the Cod 
would burfl, and the Cotton fly out force- 
ably, at a very little hole, jyft as the Pulp 
out of a roafting Apple, till all has been 
out of the Cod. I met with this fort of 
Cotton afterwards at Timor (where it 
was ripe in November ) and no where 
elfe in all my T ravels j but I found two o- 
ther forts of Silk-cotton at Z>V^2./7, which I 
fhall there defcribe. The right Cotton- 
Shrub grows here alfo, but not on the 
Sand-bank. I faw feme Bufhes of it near 
the Shore ; but the moft of it is planted 
in the middle of the Ifle, where the Inhabi- 
tants live. Cotton-cloth being their chief 
Manufafture ; but neither is there any 
great flore of this Cotton. There alfo are 
fomje Trees within the Ifland, but none to 
be feen near the Sea-fide; nothing but a 
few Bufhes fcattering up and down againfl 
the Tides of the adjacent Hills ; lor, as I 
faid before, the Land is pretty high froni 
