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knowledge of borax, solder their gold by dipping in a 
mixture of pounded voame and lemon-juice. 
The Fionouts is an herb bearing yellow flowers, and 
very thick leaves ; when burnt green it has the smell 
of melilot, and the ashes make lye. 
The Fimpi (Costus Indians) is a tree, of the size 
of an olive, and is deemed to be the Indian Costus. 
The bark is of an ash-grey colour, and has the perfume 
of musk, and its taste has more pungency than that 
of pepper. The leaves are similar to those of an 
aloe, and have the same smell as the bark : they 
excite sneezing. The wood is white, and hard, with a 
strong scent. This tree is called by the ancient 
Greek physicians, Agallochum and Xyloctloe , or 
Aloe-wood; and by the Portuguese, Paodaquilla. 
The Mandrise is a tree whose wood is marbled, 
and of a violet colour in the heart: the leaves are 
small. 
The Hazon Mainthi, or black-wood, is a large tree, 
whose heart is ebony; it is loaded with small leaves 
like the myrtle, of a dark green, and the bark is 
blackish. 
~ The Anacouts bears a fruit larger than the finger, 
of an ash-grey; it contains a sweet and white juice, 
made use of to turn milk : the leaves resemble those 
of a pear-tree. 
Tendrocosses bears a kind of pulse. 
The Tarantale is a species of box-tree, as is also 
the Vua-fatre, whose fruit is eatable and aromatic. 
The Souzenelahe is of two sorts : the wood smells 
