Chap. CXXIX. 
PrttM infant qu£ Nnces infant a Clufio dicuntur . 
His Indian fruit mentioned by Clttfiia in fecond booke of Exoticks, page 5 3. and 54. is thus re* 
• lated by him. The ‘Dutch after much wandring in the tanknowne Seas fell by chance into a certainc 
Bay, feituate in 11.degrees 4;.minuts of Northerly Latitude where they found certainc trees as big 
as Cherry trees,with long and narrow leaves like Peach leaves, whofe fruits they faw theMonkics 
there eating,wher upon divers of them gathered lb me and cate. them,which were fully round,grow¬ 
ing for the moft part fingly-cach upon its (hike, and fometimes 
two together, being about two inches or not much more cither 
Jongwifeorroundjwithafirmebmnot very thickc (hell, brow¬ 
nish on the outfide and not very fmootb,but (mooch within, and 
of a brighter colour, containing a certaine fruit within fomc- 
what like unto a bbeke Sloe, both for forme and fize, (pot¬ 
ted with fomewhat a large white fpot at the bottome where it 
ftood upon the (hike, having a done under that Plum which 
was gray ifh and hard, and a kernell with it* thofe perfons 
which had eaten ofthefe Plums felt no harme, but Lome of the 
company fteeping both ftones and kcrnclls, and boyling and ea¬ 
ting of them fell into divers diftemperatures, according to each 
mans feverall humour,onc thought his Cabin was made a Brc w- 
houfe, and bad take away the woman that was there; another 
called his Mates together, asking them if they would buy his 
fiflbjwhcreof he had varietie : another lying in his Cabin com¬ 
plained that his flefh was tome from his bones, another cryed out loudly that they were building a great (hip 
in his Cabin, another in his Cabin broke foure or five Cbinaydifath faying chat many men were comming to take 
. away his Cabin from him, another calling to the Maifter of the (liippe fatd, doe yce noc (ee the Divcll fitting in 
the Sterne catching Fifli ■ another (ayd that he faw the Anchors in the bottome of the Sea through the bulke of 
theShippe; the Matters lonnefaid to bis father, O my father I fee a number of little men running upon your 
no fc, but after they had flepc all thefe imaginations vanifhed, yetfomcof them dept fora day and ahalfe, and 
Lome two whole dayes before they waked,and fome thereby were troubled with the laske: many other fancies 
fell among the reft which were too long to recite j but among them all (aith he as it were in fcornc among the 
reft there was an Englifh man diftra&ed, who looking upward faid he faw the heavens open and cryed with a 
loud voyce 3 0 Lord I will willingly follow thee, and with divers other geftures moved the company to laugh¬ 
ter. CIhCim fheweth that in the fame table with thefe Plums or Nuts hce fee another (mall Nut not much unlike 
an Hafell nut which made r.o noyfe of any kernell thercin,and knew not whether it had any cup to hold it as an 
Acknornehath or no. 
Chap. CXXX. 
Atamoera mat dr fiemina. 
The male and female Dugge tree. 
He forme of thefe two forts of tres are 
both alike, not differing the one from 
the other, but in this that the male bea- 
reth nobloffomcs, but fruite like unto 
a ftnall Pompion many growing toge¬ 
ther towards the coppe out of the bo¬ 
dy of the tree which hath no armes or branches but 
oncly large broad leaves much like unto the Plane 
tree or Maple tree lcafe, each ftanding on a very long 
ftalkc : the trunke or ftocke of the tree is ncare two 
foot thickc, and about nine foore high: the floweis 
are of a pale yellow colour like unto Elder bloffomes 
whichfervetonoufe, the fruic is round and flefhy, 
yellowifti when it is ripe, and ferving them to loo- 
fen the belly when they are eaten and contcine with¬ 
in them many round blackc fhining graincs as bigge as 
Pcafe which likewife are put to no ulc with them.The 
propertie of thefe trees is faid to be, that unleffe the 
male kinde bee planted to grow neare the female it 
will beire no fruit at all; of which nature a. kinde of 
Date tree is faid to be alfo. This tree groweth in chat 
part of r Sraffill that the Portttgails called Baja d< todos 
{os SanBos, 
Mamoera mas [ 4 nttna, Tl* male Dugge tree. 
