anifit to make ftooles,chaires,faddles, audthelike.- the leafe is long and narrow towards the (hike, and broa¬ 
der towards the end, but growing lelTe from thence to the point: the mcate or pulpe thereof is like unto Gourds ’ 
which they often eate in want of better food : This tree groweth in MJ>4»io/«,and other the Iflands of the Weft 
Indies, as wellas on the Continent alio. fetteth forth other certaine fruites tyed unto firings and Hones 
Within to found in dancing with them, which he cntitulcth Higurn, farre differing fromthis, 
Abovai Thrveti. The ftincking tree with his poyfonousfruite. 
ItgrowethashighasaPearetree, with leaves three or foure inches long, and cwo broad, yeelding white 
niilke, if any branch bee broken: the wood ftincketh moftabhominably, bearing a white three fquare fruire 
fomewhatlikeunco the Grccke letter A. whofe kernell within is mod poyfonous and deadly, and therefore the 
Indians doe give great caution to their children that they eate none of them, andthemfelvesabftainealfo from 
tiling of the wood to bnrne, but having taken the kernell they putting (mall Hones within the fliells, and tying 
them with (brings they feeve them for bracers for their legges to dance with, as Moris dancers doc with bells 
with us. 
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UlUmay. The Weft Indian Peach plumme. 
Culiger faith this tree is like the Chefiiuc tree with like leaves yet greater: but Ovitdnt ia his hilto-' 
ry of the Weft Indies, deferibeth it to be a faire great tree like unto the Wallnuc tree, and with 
fuch like leaves, but larger, thicker,and greener on the one fide then on the other: the fruiteis 
either perfeft round or a little longer then round, as bigge as a good great Quince, fome gr cater, 
others lefTer, coveredwitha yellow thicke skin or coatc, that is fomewhat rough and not fmooth.' 
the pulpe ormeate whereof is very plcafant like unto a Peach, but firmer, and no: fo fappy as a Plumme,of a yel" 
lowifh colour, and is of a finger or two in thickenefle, having in i;he middle two or three kernels, feparatedby 
shinne skinnes,that are of a peeled Chefnu; colour and cade, but very bitter in the inner kernell. 
