Bafiard Coco. Silk Cotton. 
'^«.i 699. ger here than in the Weft-Indies^ and of 
it they make good Plank. The White 
Mangrove is larger and tougher than in 
the Wejl-Indies ; of thefe they make Mafts 
and Yards for Barks. 
There grow here Wild or Baftard Co- 
co Nut Trees, neither fo large nor fo tall 
as the common ones in the Eafl or Wefi- 
Indies. They bear Nuts as the others, but 
not a quarter fo big as the right Coco- 
Nuts. The fhell is full o^ Kernel, witliT 
out any hollow Place or Water in it; and 
the Kernel is fweet and wholefome, but 
very hard both for the Teeth and for Di- 
geftion. Thefe Nuts are in much efteemt 
for making Beads for Pater-noJter''s, Boles 
of Tobacco-pipes, and other Toys: and 
every fmali Shop here has a great many of 
them to fell. At the top of thefe Baftard 
Coco-trees , among the Branches , there 
grows a fort of long black Thread like 
Horfe-hair, but much longer, which by 
the Tortuguefe is called Trefabo. Of this 
they make Cables which are very fer vice- 
able, ftrong and lafting ; for they will not 
rot as Cables made of Hemp, tho’ fheyly 
expofed both to Wet and Heat. Thefe are 
the Cables which I faid they keep in their 
Harbours here, to let to hire to Europem 
Ships, and rcfemble the Cojre-Cabks. 
Here are three forts of Cotton Trees that 
bear Silk- cotton. One fort is fudi as I 
have 
