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then an Hazell Nut and longer, round alfo, and poin¬ 
ted at the one end, furrowed alfo on both fides, yet on 
one fide more conlpicuous then the other, that it might 
be parted into two, in each fide whereof lyeth a final! 
long white kernel!, fiat on that fide they j oyne toge¬ 
ther, covered with a yellovvifh skinne, of an acids 
tafte, and fomewhat bitter withall and contained in a 
thinnefhell, of adarkifh aih-colour: with thefe ber¬ 
ries generally in Arabia and Egift, and in other places 
of the Turk?! Dominions, they make a decoftion or 
drinke, which is in the (lead of Wine to them, and ge¬ 
nerally (old in all their tappe houfes.called by the name 
of Caava ; Pa/udamtu faith Choava, and Raurvolfin 
Cbanbc. This drinke hath many good Phyficall pro¬ 
perties therein: for it llrengtheneth a weake (lomacke, 
helping digeftion, and the tumours and oblfrudlions of 
the liver and fpleene, being drunke fading for fome 
time together. The Egiptiau, and Arabian women ufe 
it familiarly while their courfes hold, to caule them to 
pafl'e away with the more eafe, as alfo to caule thofe to 
flow that are flayed, their bodies being prepared and 
purged aforehand. 
Arbo/ Bon curt fructu j uh bun*- 
Turkes berry drinke. 3 
Chap. LXXX. 
Cantu. White Nnts. 
Here groweth faith garc',as in divers places of Malavar, a certaine Plant which is fowen and hath 
the fruite thereofhanging downe from the branches that are like unto Hazell Nuts, but not lb 
round, and white o( colour, whole kernell is iweet fomewhat likeunto Mufhromes or Spanijb 
puSls when they are boyled and dreffed : they call it Q ttiviquilnga j„ Come places ( which Cm- 
mfyeth faith Gamas a finall Inhame, but Clttfms faith he knoweth it not, except it be ibeTrj/t 
dales, or fnnciaaveUa»ada ) and in MfUvar £W<k, and in Cambaya [arpata- thefe faith he 
r . , , * re t0 an yu(ein phyficke lhathe knew the doth'con/c£ture'that Seraph meancth this 
tIie of Htbacoulceul ,which faith he,bresdeth abundance offperme, but bringeth the patfion of the 
Chap. LXXXT. 
Caceras Indorum, Indian Trafi rootes. 
|His roote groweth within the ground like as Trafrs doe, (hooting forth (hikes in the dry time of the 
( yeare, having leaves like the water Flagge, or Corne Flagge, one fouldtd within another- thefe 
| rootes being dryed cade like unto Chcfnuts: but while they be greene or before they be dryed th-v 
j areunpleafant. Clufitu thinketh that thefe rootes be the MalinathallaoCThsopbrafttss l-.b, i.c.io.or 
AnthahamoVPlinj. About the River Martgmu in Peru ,grow certaine fruits under the mound „ „ ,, 
hke Spantfl, balles.of the length and bignefle of halfe ones fingers, round and fomewhat writhed, ol a brfwnifli f 
colour, having within it a finall nut like an Allmond, which will rattle being fhaked when it is dry browne « S«' 
Without and white within, parting in two parts as an Allmond, of as good a talk as a Filberd, both’rawr and av Manofo 
roafted, but procuring headache if coo liberally eaten: they dry and ftrengshen the ftomacke, aR d are eftcened 
as junkets with the Indians and Spaniards. 
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