Tr i b b 17, The Theater of‘Plants* Cha p.42, 1597 
FraUus integer Nuch Indiea Coau diflus, 
The whole Cokar Nnt as it is taken from the tree 
Nux Indict interior. 
The inward Cokar Nut with the hard blacke fhell there oa, 
but as it groweth either to be over ripe,or being kept to be older ,fo 
much lefle pleafant will this liquour be, and cither growfoweror 
thicke by time.-and be quite (pent and continued, it hath beenc ob- 
ferved that fometimes there will be doting in this liquour a fmal! 
lum pe or balsas clcere as a pearle, and very Tweet in taltc, which is 
asthcTprout, which have fprung forth allalke rifing through one 
of the holes at the head, and rifing two palmcs above it hath (hot 
forth fibres for rootes. The name and ufes whercunto this tree, ,and 
the fruite, and thofe things that are made thereof ferve, are thefe. 
The tree it felfe is called generally by the Indians Maro, in Malaca 
Trican • but in Malabar Tengamaran, by Avicen (jiau(i al bcnd t 
which is Nux Indica, by Serapio and Rbafis, as Garcias faith, larcl- 
nare, yet that word is not found faith C lupus in our Bookes, but Ne - 
regill: the Latines call it Palma Indie a & Coccifera , to dlRinguifh it 
from the Palma Dattjlifera, the timber whereof is not fpongy or 
like the Ferulas as Garcias faith, but folide and firms, blacke and 
fhining like the Wallnut tree, fit for building of houfes or (hips, 
and other things,as Garcias himfelfc faith a little after, this tree faith 
Garcia is of two forts (or rather as \ thinke kept for two ufes ) the 
one to bcarc fruite, the other to extraft the liquour ifliiing thereout, 
when the branches are cut, or when it is bored and received into 
Gourdes,or other fuch like things tyed thereto, which liquour they 
callJ«r*, and is like troubled Wine in fhew, but intafte like new 
or fweetc wine which being boyled is called Orraqua, and being de- 
ftillcd is made like ant 0 Aqua vita, which they ufc to the fame purpofe that we doe ours, and will burne like 
it, and is called Fula, and being let into the Sunne will become good vinegar, but that which runneth Iaft being 
differed to abide in the Sanne until! it grow hard,or boyled to the hardneffe will be Sugar, which they call Iagra a 
The branches faith (jarciat ( but Ferdinands Lopes faith the leaves) are called OUa, and ferve as umbrels to keepc 
off Sunne and Raine, and in fuch like leaves, faith he, was written thefirR Letter that the King of Calecutiznt 
to Emanuel King of Portugal!, upon the 'Portugals firft arrivall into his Country, they ferve likewife to cover 
houfes, to be defended from raine, the fruite is called by the Indians generally Narel, which is common both 
with the Perfians and Arabians, but in Malabar Tenga, and while it is greene and not ripe Eleni, the Portugal x 
call it Coejuo, that is a Monckey,of the likenes of a Monkeys face, and from thence hath rifen the word Cocw 0 r ra¬ 
ther which the three holes reprefent,and at Goa Lanka, of the hairy Ruffe or hardcs which is next the outer 
barke of this Nut,called by the Indians Cairo, are made not only Cordage and Tackle for fhips,butcawking Ruffe, 
which is better to cawke fhips then any other Ruffe, and being beaten, the finer Ruffe is made into girdles and 
ca wles for women,(failes cloathes alio, but not any fine Ruffe or cloath like any fine linnen ) both of the meaner 
and better fort at Lijhbone 3 as C lupus faith he faw and obferved, but as Garcias faith, while this Nut is youngie 
hath 2 tender barke which may be caten,and taReth like an Artichoke;of the browne hard inner fhtll, being pol- 
lifhed and made blacke and (hilling,is not onely made cups,to drinkc in,Tec in filver or other metcall,wbiclunade 
Sepulveda to draw the Portugalh to thinke that it doth helpe thole that have the Palfie to drinke out-of chem.buc 
Qarcias faith it hath no likelihood: but being burned into coalcs ferve the Gold fmithes for their ufes: who goe 
about in the Rrcetes crying for worke, and carrying fome neceffary tooles for the purpofe with them; of the inner 
white kernell,which is hollow, cleaving faR to the infide of the hard wooddy (hell, which is an inch or two or 
lefie thicke, firme and faR,tailing fwcet like aw Allmond,they make breadefpecially while it is frefh,for the frefh- 
er the Nuts are, the Tweeter will the meate thereof be, and doth nourifh much, being good for macilenc bodies, 
and toencrcafe fperme and Venery, and is good to Iencfie the harfhneffeof the throaty gnd the hQarfeneffe of 
V y v v v v 3 ' ■ 7 iths 
Ntuul* Indicts alter. 
A little Indian Nut,and anocher called 
Mtknbftbm; 
