200 
Part II. 
(a) Linfcho- 
ten. 
Joh. de Laet. 
Pifo, and 
others. 
(£}L.2.c.30. 
go sea. 5. 
Of Nuts. 
From the Kernel it fclf, when frefh, and well ftamped, they 
prefs out a Milk, which they always mix and eat with 
their Rice-Meats. Of the Kernel dry’d (called Copra) and 
ftamped, they make Oil, both to eat, and to burn. Of' 
the Leaves of the Tree (called Olas) they make the Sails of 
their Ships: as alfo Covers for their Houfes and Tents ; and 
Summer-Hats. Of the Wood, they make Ships without 
Nails 3 fewing the feveral parts together with the Cords 
made of the Husk of the Nut. (a) 
A fmall ORBICULAR FRUIT, as it feems, of the 
Nut-kind, not bigger than a Bhyfical Pill; a little flattilh 
on that part which grows to the Husk. Very hard. And 
of a fhining colour, like that of red Coral. Defcribed (b) 
alfo by Clufus: and neatly figur'd in Calceolarias s Mu- 
ftzum. (c) 
ANOTHER of the fame hardnefs, lhape, and bignefs 3 
but of a fhining black. 
ANOTHER hard and orbicular Fruit, by Cafp. Bauhi- 
nus called Milium Indicum. For what reafon I fee not, it 
having no fimilitude thereto. That for which it is ob- 
fervable, is, that it looks as if it were artificially turn’d 
upon a Lath. See a rude Figure hereof in J. Bauhinus. 
An Oval Stone or Shell, of the bignefs and fhape of a 
midling Olive. Given by Mr. Anth. Homeck. It feems 
doubtful, Whether of the Plum or Nut-kind. ’Tis all 
over fmooth, and of a fhining light bay, like that of a 
Mammee. Excepting only the Bafe which is of a dull 
colour, and ruged, and having two narrow fmooth Mar¬ 
gins like a pair of Lips, or an open mouth : from the cor¬ 
ners w hereof runs a natural Notch round about the Stone 
or Shell. 
The YECOTL. The Fruit of a little Tree in New-Spain] 
which the Spaniards call Palmam Montenfem 5 and which 
I take to be all one with the Palmapinus, or the Palma Coni¬ 
fer a. ’Tis defcribed and figur’d both by J. Bauhinus, and 
by Wormius. Who Reports out of Laet , Thatthefe kind 
of Nuts are always found empty, or without a Kernel. 
Which is a miftake; for this here hath one. ’Tis likely all 
that he faw (and fo he fhould have faid) were barren. 
The length of this, about two inches and half 5 theDia- 
metre, one and h the Figure Oval. Smooth, and of a 
fhining 
