224 TlMEHRl. 
appear to like to get this milk for the sake of mixing it 
with the balata milk as it is said to impart to the balata 
a beautiful reddish tint, a gallon or so being put into a 
full tray for drying. The wood is valuable for a great 
variety of purposes. The colour is brown, dark in ma- 
ture trees, when the centre is beautifully marked. The 
grain is close but most very dense, and it works freely. 
It is an excellent furniture wood, or for indoor fittings, 
such as doors, partitions, &c, in houses. It is well 
adapted for puncheon heads, and it is the wood almost 
exclusively used on the Canje for the peculiarly shaped 
paddles the inhabitants use. Care must be observed in 
felling the trees for timber, as they are very liable to 
split in the operation, — burst, as the woodcutters say. 
The bark is used as a remedy for diarrhoea. A pint of water 
containing as many chips of bark as it will cover in a 
saucepan, is boiled down to a half pint, and, when cold, 
drunk from time to time in small doses. The taste is 
said not to be unpleasant. The bartiballi is an exceed- 
ingly common tree, diffused from one side of the colony 
to the other, and extending, Mr. McTurk informs me, in 
great quantities to the higher and sandy land of the 
Mazaruni. It is not gregarious, nor as plentiful in Ber- 
bice as the bullet-tree, but otherwise appears to be one 
of the most generally spread and plentiful trees in 
Guiana. A middle-sized tree gives, tapped standing 
eight feet from the ground on one side of the trunk, from 
a pint and a half to two pints of milk. The milk runs 
freely at first, and gradually stops in three quarters of an 
hour. Of the sample I brought down, the specific gravity 
was rather higher than that of balata milk, being ro499« 
A gallon weighs therefore 10*499 lbs. This sample, 
