Of mAwg other forts of Wives. 
I cannot pals by naming this famous Li¬ 
quor Chocolatte , that w as in a manner Meat 
and Drink to a great part of America , and 
is very much ufed in mod parts of it. The 
principal Ingredient is the Kernel of the 
Cacao-nut , a Fruit growing in thofe parts 
very plentifully, yet in lo great efteem a- 
mongft them, that it was amongfi: theNa* 
tives as their Coin. 
There grow lometimes thirty or forty 
of them in a husk. The nature of them is 
aftringent, yet ftrengthning and nourilk- 
ing. This Kernel being ground fine by a 
Molinett , and fo reduced to a Liquidity 
gives it the nameof Chocolatte , Atte in the 
American Language fignifying Water. 
To this Fruit they add Achiotc , which 
is made of red Kernels or grains growing in 
round Husks on a Tree there by decoding 
them to a Pap, whereof they make Cakes. 
Alfothey add Mai : z., a Grain growing in 
that Country} and Macaxochite , a kind of 
Pepper, which tempers the cooling pro¬ 
perty of the otherlngredients: Thev mix 
therewith the Flowers of the Tree Xcchi- 
nacdtlis, and Tlilxochitlc , and a Gum that 
j drops from a Tree they call Holquahuitle , 
which have excellent virtues with them 5 
of all which the Amercians compofe a plea- 
O fan: 
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