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lio'ht vpon a certainc defert Ifland, wherein grew many very tall trees, and looking for fomething 
araon^ft thefe to refrefh themfelues.amongtt others they obferued fome bigger than Okes, hailing 
leaues°ike thofe of the Bay tree, thicke and fhining,not (nipt about the edges 4 their fruit was lon- 
gith like to the ftnall Acornes of the Ilex or Holme Oke, but without any cup ; yet couered with 
a thin fhell ofan afh colour, and fomtiines blacke, hailing within it a longifh white kernel! wrap- 
ped in a thin peeling, being without any manifeft tafte-,They when they found it, though much op- 
preft with hun*er,yec durft not tafte thereof, leaft it lhould haue been poiionous : but afterwards 
comming to the Ifland Beretina,notfar from this, they found it to abound with thefe trees, & lear- 
ned that their fruit was notpoifonous,but might be eaten. Wherupon afterwards they in want of 
ocher victuals .boiled fome as they do Peal'e,and ground others intotfoure, wherewith they made 
puddings. They found this tree alfo in the Moluccoes. 
to The firftexprefTed inthis table is the mad Plum, or as Clufws had ratherterme it the Mad 
Nut-forhe cal's them or ln[*n* Xuces. The Hollanders finding them in their return from 
theliaft Indies, and earing the kernels, were fora time diftraded, and that vanoufly, according to 
the particular temperature of each that ate of them 4 as you may tee in cMms ExctMb. 2^.26. 
This was round little more than two inches about, with a fhell not thicke. but iuthciently ltrong, 
brovvnifh on rhe out fide.and not fmooth,but on the infide of a yellowifh colour and fmooth, con- 
taining a membranous (tone or kernell couered with a black pulp, in form and bignefle nor much 
vnlikea Bullas nr Sloe, hailing a large white fpotonthe lower part whereas it was fattened to the 
ftaike • vnderthe pulpe lay the kernell, fomevvhat hard, and of an ath colour : the foot-ftalke was 
fhort and commonly carried but one fruit, yet (ometimes they obferued two growing togerhcr:the 
tree wheron this fruit *rew was of the bigneflfe of a Cherry tree.hauing long and narrow leaues like 
thofe of the Peach tree- the other fruit figured in the 2. place was of a browmfh yellow colour, fom- 
what bigger, but not vnlike a fmall Nut,and inch long, and fomwhat more : about /mailer below, and 
bigger aboue.and as it were parted into foure, being very hard and foil id. Of this fee more in the 
fourteenth place . . . . . r , . r . 
11 The Calais a fruit well knowne in diners parts of America; for they m iomc places vfe it in 
ftsad of money, and to make a drinke, of which, though bitter, they highly efttemet the trees which 
beare them arebut fmall , hailing long and narrow leaues, and willonely grow well inplaces 
fhadowed from the Sun.The fruit is like an Almond taken out of his husk, and ic is couered with 
a thin blacke skin, wherein is contained a kernell obliquely diuided into two or three parts, brow * 
nilh, and diftinguilhed with afh coloured veines, of an aftringent and vngratefull tafte. 
u This which Clujitts had from Conujusfcyi the fruit of is thought to be the Cud of 
Plin y.and is the C.uaophera of Matthiolus, and by that name out Author had it in this Chapter The 
whole fruit is of the bignefle of a Quince, and of the fame colour, with a fweet and fibrous flefh.vn- 
der which is a nut of the bignefle ot a large Walnut or fomewhat more,almoftot a triangular form 
bigger below, and fmaller abouepvell fmelling,ofa darke afh colour,wirh a very hard fhell which 
broken there is there in contained a hard kernell ofthe colour and hardneffe of matble, hauinga 
holloivneffe in the middle, as much as may containea Hafell Nut. . 
1 a In this table are foure feuerall fruits deferibed by CUftns Exm.l1b.2-c. 2 1- The fim is cal- 
led Luce , and is faid to grow vpon a high tree in Guyana called Hura: it contlfted of many Nuts 
of fome inch Ion* ftrongly fattened or knit together.each hauing a hard wooddy (hell, falling into 
two parts, containing a round and fmooth kernell couered with an afh coloured hlme. 
They fay the natiues there vfe this fruit to purge and vomite. _ . A 
Thefecond called Araragrowes inKaiana,buthow, it isnotknowne : it was fome inch long co- 
uered with a skin fufficiently hard and blacke, fattened toa long and rugged ftaike chat teemed to 
haue carried more than one fruitrthe kernell is blacke, andof the b.gnefleof a wilde Ohue 
The natiues vfe the decoAion hereof to wafh maligne vlcers, and they fay the kernell willloofc B 
th TTie tli'ird named ornktrU is the fruit of a tree in Wiapock.called tormu, they vfe this to cure 
their wounds, dropping the iuice of the fruit into them. This fruit is flat a.moft an inch broad, and 
two long, but wrichen like the cod of the true cjtifo but much bigger, very wrinckled, ofan alb co- 
lour.containinga fmooth feed. ^ . ... T . . . / 
The fourth called Cropioti s a fmall and fhriuelled fruir 3 not much vnlike the particular loints of 
The fauascs vfero take it mixed amongft their Tabaco to aflwage head-ache:there were diners Q 
of them putvpon a ftringfas you may fee in the figure) the better to dry them. 
1 4 This whichby ClnCius & Ltbtl is thought to be the Guanabunus mentioned by ScdtgtrExtrc 
, 0 . 4 t is a thicke fruit fome foot and halfe long, couered with a thicke and hard nnde.freezed 
ouet with a foft downinefle,like as a Quince is, but of a greenifh colour, with fome veines, or rather 
* { Meloasuhe lower end is fomewhat lharp: at the vpperenaic is 
fattened 
furrowes running alongft it,as in f 
