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A33345	A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing C4558; ESTC R17743	124,649	128

These Branches are of several lengths the most inward are the highest and each stalk is adorned with leaves and each of these leaves sharp at either end the Stem is of a pure grass green shining like Velom and all the Branches with the Leaves of a full grass green and speading every way and the highest of them eight foot above the stem The Branches sprout from the middle of tree one at once and as it opens it spreads the Leaves abroad at which time the eldest Branch withers and hangs down till the wind blows it off Then comes forth another and another and still there is a Pike and a dead leaf a Pike and a dead Leaf as the tree growes higher and higher which is till she be one hundred years old About thirty or fourty yeas old she begins to bear her fruit which is of the bigness of large Grapes some green some yellow some purple and then they are ripe when they come to be purple and fall down and then the Green turns yellow and the yellow purple and so take their turns till the tree gives over bearing These trees grow till some of them be two hundred yea three hundred foot high The top of this tree is of a vast extent for from the point of the branches on the one side to the point of the stalk on the other side is seventy eight foot yet are none of the roots of this tree bigger then a Swans Quil But there are many of them and they fasten themselves in the Rock which makes the Tree though so high and big able to stand against all wind and weather The wood of this tree is so hard and tough that it breakes the Axes of those those that fell it There are many other sorts of trees some exceeding large aud beautiful for which they have no names Of Plants The Ginger is a Root that brings forth blades like the blades of Wheat but broader and thicker They are of a Popinary colour and the blossome of a pure Scarlet When the Ginger is ripe they dig it up being the Root and scrape off the outward skin to kill the spirits of it for else it would grow perpetually Others scald it to kill the spirits and that will be black and hard as Wood whereas the scraped Ginger is white and soft and hath a cleaner and quicker tast Red Pepper There are two sorts of Red Pepper the one like Coral of a Crimson and Scarlet colour mixt the fruit about three inches long and shines more then the best polished Coral The other is of the same colour and glisters as much but is shaped like a large Button of a Cloake they have both the same quality so violently strong that when they break but the Skin it causes them to Cough for a quarter of an hour after the fruit is removed But whil'st they are grabling of it they never give over It grows on a little shrub no bigger then a Goosbberry-bush They have excellent good Cucumbers from the beginning of November to the end of February they eat them cold with Oyle Vineger and Pepper But boiled or fried they use them for sauce with Mutton Pork Turkies and Muscovy Ducks Millions they have likewise for those four moneths For the most part larger then ours in England and eat moister Some of them are sixteen inches long The Water Million is one of the goodliest Fruits that grows Some as big as Cloak-bags purely Green engravened with Straw-colour No inch of the Rind is alike and they are as smooth as polished Glass within they are like an Apple for colour but in tast waterish and wallowish It 's rarely cooling and excellent against the Stone The Seeds are of a pure Purple they are full of these seeds Grapes they have which are indifferently well tasted but they are never ripe together There are alwayes some green some ripe and some rotten Grapes in a Bunch and therefore they cannot make Wine of them The fruit of the Plantane is of great use and beauty too In Planting them they put a root into the ground six inches deep and in a very short time there will come out three or four sprouts whereof one hath the precedence As this Sprout grows it springs from the intrinsick part of the Stem and the out Leaves hang down and rot But still new ones come within and rise up as the Palmeto does like a Pike which opens with the Sun and becomes a Leaf and when it 's eight or ten foot high the Pikes and Leaves will be of their full bigness and so continue till the last Sprout comes forth which is the Soul of the Plant and will never be a Leaf But is the Stem upon which the fruit must grow When the Leaves come to their full bigness they rot no more but continue in their first beauty a rich green with stripes of yellow These Leaves are most of them above six foot long and two foot broad smooth shining and stiff as a Lawrel Leaf falling from the middle to the end like a Feather And when it comes to the full heighth the Leaves will be fifteen or sixteen foot high the Stem upon which the fruit grows being a foot higher with a green branch on the top which branch is very heavy and then the leaves open and shew the Blossome which is of a pure purple and like a heart with the point downwards being of a pound weight when this is fallen the Fruit grows In six moneths space this Plant will be grown and the fruit ripe which is pleasant wholesome and nourishing yellow when it 's ripe But the Negroes desire it green for they eat it boiled and it 's the only food they live upon When it 's gathered they cut down the Plant and give it to the Hoggs for it will grow no more In three moneths another Sprout will come to bear and so another and another for ever Groves they make of these Plants of twenty Acres of ground so planting them in every room that they can walk dry under the leaves and be shaded from the Sun The wild Plantane grows much as the other doth but the leaves not so broad and more upright The Fruit of a Scarlet colour and almost three square but good for nothing The Bonano differs nothing from the Plantane in the Body and Leaves but only that the leaves are somewhat less and the body hath here and there some blackish spots the Blossome no bigger then a large Rose bud of a faint Purple and Ash colour mixt the Stalk that bears it is adorned with small Blossomes of several colours The Fruit stands upright like a bunch of Puddings each of them between four and five inches long The Fruit is sweeter then that of the Plantane and therefore the Negroes will not meddle with it It 's near as beautiful a trees as the ●antane The Pine is excellent in the Superlative Degree both for beauty and tast It s a full

and stick them in the ground an inch deep close to one another and keep them even with a Rail on either side and in a moneths space they will take root and send forth Leaves and in another moneth will be rooted so fast that they take away the the Railes These Leaves are large smooth and beautifully shaped of a full green looking like green Sattin hang'd on a line so even they hang naturally Their Stems grow apace rather in bigness then in heighth and within a while imbody themselves one into another and then they become a very strong fence and so close that a Rat cannot pass through them neither will Cattel or Vermin willingly come near them And as it 's a beautiful and useful fence for Gardens and Orchards and to keep in Conies Turkies Muscovy-Ducks so it excellently fences in their Pastures which they would inclose Their Fruit also is Phisical Five of its kernels eaten in a morning fasting causes both Vomits and Stools This Nut is like to a white Pear-Plumb and of a yellowish colour and of yellowish colour having on it as great a peelp as a Plumb which being taken off you come to the stone of a blackish colour and within that is a kernel that will part in the middle where you shall find a thin Film of a faint Carnetion colour Take off that Film and you may eat the Kernel safely without any operation at all and it 's as sweet as a Jordans Almond The Leaves are sharp some like a Vine Leaf but thrice as big and much thicker The poison Tree is very beautiful almost as large as the Locust Her Leaves as large and beautiful as the Lawrel Leaves and very like them As they cut down these Trees they have Cipers over their Faces For if any of their Sap flies into their eyes it makes them blind for a moneth after Of this Timber they make most of the Vessels wherein they cure their Sugar There is a Mantionel Tree whose Fruit is Poison The Fruit is like an Apple John and they say that the Indians invenom their Arrows with it The Cussavy is rather a Shrub then a Tree the Sprigs as big as a Broom-staff crooked and ill shaped The Leaves grow so thick as to cover them and they grow in bunches each of them an inch broad and six or seven inches long of a Dark Green The growth of the Roots and the use of them is set down before Coloquintida is a very beautiful Fruit as big as an Ostrages Egg of an ill taste the rind smooth with various Greens interlaced with murries yellows and faint Carnations Cassia Fistula is a Tree which grows exceeding fast A Seed of it being set will in one year grow to be eight foot high and as thick as a walking staff The Leaf is like that of an Ash but much longer and of a darker colour The Fruit when it 's ripe is of shape like a black Puddling sometimes sixteen inches long the pulp of it is Progatine and a great cooler of the reins There is a Plant very like a Sugar Cane If it be chewed in the mouth it causes the Tongue and Throat so to swell that the party cannot speak for two dayes There are Tammerine Trees and Palm Trees planted which were brought from the East-India The Palm yields excellent Wine which is thus gathered They cut off the Bark in such a part of the Tree where a Bottle may be fitly placed and the Liquor that runs into it is excellent good for a day and no longer It 's a very delicious Liquor The Fig-Trees are very large but bear a small and contemptible fruit neither are the Leaves like ours nor so long by a fifth part The bodies of the Trees are as long as our Elms. The Cherry Tree is not altogether so large the fruit is useless and insiped The colour some resembling our Cherries and the shape not unlike The Citron is a small Tree though she bears a great Fruit which weighs it down to the Ground the Stalk of a dark colour the Leaf shaped like that of Limon but of a dark green The Orange Trees do not prosper so well neither is their Fruit so kindly as those of Bermudas Large they are and full of juice but not delicious besides ther full of Seeds and their rinds thin and pale These Trees do not last in their prime above seven years The Limon Tree is much handsomer and larger Their fruits is large and full of juice and of a fragrant smell The Lime tree is like a thick Holly-bush in England and as full of prickles When they make a Hedge of them about their houses it 's an excellent fence both against the Negroes and Cattel It 's commonly of seven or eight foot high extreamly thick of Leaves and Fruit and prickles The leaves and fruit like those of the Limon-tree yet in the tast of rind and juice it differs exceedingly It 's very fit for sauce but eats not well alone The Prickled Apple-tree grows on a tree with very thick leaves large and of a deep green shaped like our Walnut leaves The fruit is in fashion in heart of an Oke and of that bigness Green on the outside with many Prickles on it The tast is very like that of a musty Limon The Pilchard Pear is much purer in tast and better of shape not much unlike a Greenfield Pear of a faint green inter mixed with some yellow near the stalk The body of a mixt red partly Crimson partly stammel with prickles of yellow near the top the end being larger then the middle The Pomgranate is a beautiful tree the leaves small and green mixed with an Olive colour the blossoms large well shaped and of a pure Scarlet colour The young trees being set in rows and kept in with cutting make a very fine hedge The fruit is well known amongst us The Papa is but a small tree the bark of a faint willow colour the Leaves large and of colour like the bark the Branches grow out four or five of one heighth and spread almost level from the place where they sprang out about two foot higher are such other branches spreading in the same manner The top is handsomly formed the fruit as big Turnips growing close to the body of the tree where the branches grow and of somewhat a fainter willow colour The tree is soft with a Knife a man may cut down one that is as thick as a mans legg They boil the the fruit and eat it for Sauce with Pork like Turnips The Gnaver-tree is bodied and shaped like a Cherry-tree the Leaves somewhat larger and stiffer the fruit of the bigness of a small Limon and near of the colour only the upper end is somewhat blunter It 's soft and of a delicate tast within is a pulpy substance full of small seeds like a Figg some are white

neither of them sweet The Saint Jago Flower is very beautiful but of an unpleasing smell Another flower they have that opens not till Sun setting and is closed all day and therefore they call it the Flower of the Moon It grows in great tufts the Leaves like a heart the point turning back The flower is of a most pure Purple After the flower appears the seed black with an eye of Purple of the shape of a small Button so finely wrought and tough with all as it may well trim a suit of Apparel There is Purceane so plentifully every where as makes it disesteemed Herbs and Roots There are brought from England Rosemary Time Winter-Savory Sweet-Marjerom Pot-Marjerom Parsly Penny-royal Camomil Sage Tansie Lavender Cotton Garlick Onions Coleworts Cabbage Turnips Redishes Marigold Lettice Taragon Southern-wood c. all which prosper well There is a Root which was brought thither by the Negroes Large dry and well tasted It 's good boyled to eat with Pork mixt with Butter Vineger and Pepper It 's as big as three of our largest Turnips The strength of the Island This Island is strong by scituation For there cannot be any safe Landing but where the Harbours and Bayes are which lie to the South-West and those places are so Defencible by Nature as with small cost they are strongly fortified In the year one thousand six hundred and fifty they were able to muster ten thousand Foot as good and Resolute men as any in the World and a thousand good Horse and since then they are much increased Their Laws and Government Their Laws are like ours in England and they are governed by a Governour and ten of his Council four Courts of Justice in Civil Laws which divide the Countrey into four Circuits Justices of Peace Constables Churchwardens and Tithingmen Five Sessions in a year were held for trial of Criminal Causes and Appeals from Inferiour Courts When the Governour pleases to call an Assembly for the last Appeals and making new Laws or abolishing the Old It consists of the Governour his Councel and two Burgesses chosen by every Parish There are in the Island eleven Parishes No Tithe paid to the Minister but a yearly allowance of a Pound of Tobacco upon an Acre of every mans Land besides Church-Duties for Marriages Baptizings and Burials Their Weather Four Moneths in the year the Weather is colder then in the other eight and those are November December January and February yet are they hotter then with us in May. There is no general Fall of the Leaf every Tree having a particular time for it self as if two Locust-trees stand but at a stones cast distance one lets fall her leaves in January another in March another in July another in September The Leaves when Fallen under the Tree being most of them large and stiff when they were growing and full of veins from the middle stalk to the upper end when the thin part of the Leaf is consumed those veins appear like Skelletons with the strangest works and beautifullest Forms that can be imagined Negroes Heads They also find in the Sands things that they call Negroes-heads about two Inches long with a Forehead Eyes Nose Mouth Chin and part of the Neck They are alwayes found loose in the Sands without any Root It is black as Jet but whence it comes they know not TAR They have no Mines not so much as of Coles in the Islands There flows out of the Rock an Unctious substance somewhat like Tar It is excellent good to stop a Flux being drunk And for all Aches and Bruises being anointed with it It is so subtile that being put into the hand and rubbed there it works through the back of it PITCH and MOVNTIACK There is another Gumming Substance that is black and hard as Pitch and is used as Pitch they call call it Mountiack An Excellent REMEDY Against the STONE MY Author relates this Story concerning himself that during his abode in the Barbadoes he was taken with such a fit of the Stone that for fourteen dayes together he made not one drop of water But when he despaired of life God sent him such a Remedy as the World cannot afford a better For within ten hours after this taking of it he found himself not only eased but cured It brought away all the stones and gravel that stopped the passage and his water came as freely from him as ever before and caried before it such quantities of broken stones and gravel that the like hath hardly been seen And afterwards being in the like torment he used the same remedy and found the same ease The Medicine was this Take the Pizle of a green Turtle that lives in the Sea dry it with a moderate heat pound it in a Morter and take as much of this Powder as will lie upon a shilling in Beer Ale or Whitewine and in a short time it will work the cure These Turtles are frequent in the Chariby and Lucayick Islands near to the Barbadoes to which many of them are brought Three sorts of Turtles There are 3. sorts of Turtles The Loggerhead-Turtle the Hawks-bill-Turtle and the green Turtle which is of a less magnitude but far excelling the other two in wholesomness and rareness of tast That part of the Island which is the most remote from the Bridge the onely place of Trading by reason of deep and steep Gullies interposing the passage is almost stopt Besides the Land there is not so rich and fit to bear Canes as the other Yet it 's very useful for planting Provisions of Corn Bonavist Cassavy Potatoes c. As also of Fruit as Oranges Limons Lymes Plantanes Bonanoes Likewise for breeding of Hoggs Sheep Goats Cattel and Poultry to furnish either parts of the Island which wants those Commodities The Sugar Canes are fifteen Moneths from the time of their planting before they come to be fully ripe From the Island of Bonavista they have Horses brought to them whose Hooves are so hard and tough that they ride them at the Barbadoes down sharp and steep Rocks without shooes And no Goat goes surer on the sides of Rocks or Hills then they FINIS Here place the Examples of Minerals and Stones EXAMPLES OF THE Wonderful Works OF GOD IN THE CREATURES CHAP. I. Of strange Stones Earth and Minerals 1. IN Cornwal near unto a place called Pensans is that famous stone called Main-Amber which is a great Rock advanced upon some other of meaner size with so equal a counterpoize that a man may stir it with the push of his finger but to remove it quite out of his place a great number of men are not able Camb. Brit. p. 188. The like is in the Country of Stratherne in Scotland 2. In Summerset-shire near unto Cainsham are found in Stone-quarries stones resembling Serpents winding round in manner of a wreath the head bearing up in the Circumference and the end of the tail taking up the centre within but most of them are headless

tree and low having leaves like to our Bay-tree In the month of March or April when the sap goeth up to the top of the tree they cut the bark off the tree round about in length from knot to knot or from joynt to joynt above and below and then easily with their hands they take it away laying it in the Sun to dry and yet for all this the tree dyes not but against the next year it will have a new bark and that which is gathered every year is the best Cynamon that which grows longer is great and not so good P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1709. 6. In India is a tree called Arbore de Ray's or the Tree of roots it groweth first up like other trees and spreadeth the branches out of which there come strings which seem a far off to be cords of hemp which growing longer till they reach the ground there take root again so that in the end one tree will cover a great peece of ground one root crossing within another like a Maze each of these young trees will in time grow so big that it cannot be discerned which is the principal trunk or body of the tree 6. There is also a tree called Arbore-triste or the sorrowful-tree so called because it never beareth blossoms but in the night-time and so it doth and continueth all the year long So soon as the Sun sets there is not one blossom seen upon the tree but presently within half an hour after there are as many blossoms as the tree can bear pleasant to behold and smelling very sweet and as soon as the day comes and the Sun is rising they all presently fall off and not one is to be seen on the tree which seems as though it were dead till evening comes again and then it begins to blossom as it did before it s as big as a Plumb-tree it groweth up quickly and if you break but a branch of the tree and set it into the earth it presently takes root and grows and within a few days after it beareth blossoms which are like Orange-tree-blossoms the flower white and in the bottom somewhat yellow and redish P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1780. 8. There is also an herb in India called by the Portugals Herba sentida or feeling Herb which if a man touch or throw Sand or any other thing upon it presently it becomes as though it were withered closing the leaves together and it comes not to it self a gain as long as the man standeth by it but presently after he is gone it openeth the leaves again which become stiffe and fair as though they were newly grown and touching it again it shuts and becomes withered as before so that its a pleasure to behold the strange nature of it P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1781. 9. Pepper is planted at the root of some other tree and runs up it like Ivie the leaves are like the Orange-leaves but somewhat smaller green and sharpe at ends the Pepper groweth in bunches like Grapes but lesse and thinner they are always green till they begin to drye and ripen which is in December and January at which time it turns black and is gathered Pur. Pil. v. 2. p. 1782. 10. The best Ginger grows in Malabar it groweth like thin and young Netherland Reeds two or three spans high the root whereof is the Ginger which is gathered in December and January P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1782. 11. The Clove-trees are like Bay-trees the blossoms at the first white then green and at last red and hard which are the Cloves these Cloves grow very thick together and in great numbers In the place where these trees grow there is neither grass nor green herbs but is wholly drye for that those trees draw all the moisture unto them P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. 12. The Nutmeg-tree is like a Pear-tree but that its lesse and with round leaves the fruit is like great round Peaches the inward part whereof is the Nutmeg this hath about it an hard shell like wood and the shell is covered over with Nutmeg-flowers which is the Mace and over it is the fruit which without is like the fruit of a Peach P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. 13. Gumme-Lac comes most from Pegu where are certain very great Pismires with wings which fly up the trees like Plumb-trees out of which trees comes a certain Gumme which the Pismires suck up and then they make the Lac round about the branches of the trees as Bees make Wax and when it is full the owners come and breaking off the branches lay them to dry and being dry the branches shrink out and the Lac remains P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. 14. Amber-greese is usually cast upon the Sea-shore which as some suppose is the dung of the Whale or as others the sperme or seed of the Whale consolidated by lying in the Sea P. Pil. v. 2. p. 772. 15 The Herb Addad is bitter and the root of it so venemous that one drop of the juice will kill a man within the space of one hour P. Pil. v. 2. p. 850. 16 Of Palm-trees which they keep with watering and cutting every year they make Velvets Satins Taffaties Damasks Sarcenets and such like all which are spun out of the leaves cleansed and drawn into long threads P. Pil. v. 2. p. 985. 17. Frankincense grows in Arabia and is the gumme that issueth out of trees Idem p. 1781. 18. In Mozambique Manna is procreated of the dew of Heaven falling on a certain tree on which it hardens like Sugar sticking to the wood like Rozen whence it s gathered and put into jars and is used much for purging in India Idem p. 1554. 19. Mastick-trees grow only in the Island of Sio the trees are low shrubs with little crooked boughs and leaves In the end of August they begin their Mastick-harvest men cutting the bark of the Tree with Iron instruments out of which the Gum distills uncessantly for almost three months together Idem p. 1812. 20. Spunges are gathered from the sides of Rocks fifteen fathom under water about the bottom of the Streights of Gibralter the people that get them being trained up in diving from their child-hood so that they can indure to stay very long under water as if it were their habitable Element 21. In Manica is a tree called the Resurrection-tree which for the greatest part of the year is without leaf or greenness but if one cut off a bough and put it into the water in the space of ten houres it springs and flourisheth with green leaves but draw it out of the water as soon as it is dry it remaineth as it was before Pur. Pil. v. 2. p. 1537. 22. There is in the Island of Teneriff which is one of the Canaries a Tree as big as an Oke of a middle size the bark white like Hornbeam six or seven yards high with ragged boughs the leaf like the Bay-leaf It beareth neither fruit nor flower it stands on

the middle of the Tree from whence there runs continually a white thin liquor at which time they put a vessel under it and take it away full every morning and evening and then distilling it they make a very strong liquor of it Of the Nuts also they make great store of Oil out of the tree they make Bows Bedsteads of the leaves also they make very fine mats which whilest green are full of an excellent sweet liquor with which if a man be thirsty he may satisfie himself with the bark they make spoons dishes and platters for meat The first rind of the Nut they stamp and make thereof perfect Ockam and the store of these Nuts serve for merchandise So that out of this one Tree they build and rig ships furnish them with meat drink utensils and merchandise without the least help of any other whatsoever Pur. Pil. v. 2. p. 1466. and 1704. 32. Mr. Herbert in his Travels thus describes it The Tree that bears the Coco is strait lofty without any branches save at the very top where it spreads its beautiful plumes and Nuts like Pearles or Pendants adorning them It is good Timber for Canoes Masts Anchors The leaves for Tents or thatching the rind for sailes Matteresses Cables and Linnen the shels for furniture the meat for victualling The Nut is covered with a thick rind equal in bignesse to a Cabbage The shell is like the skull of a man or rather a deaths-head the eyes nose and mouth being easily discerned within it is contained a quart of sweet and excellent liquor like new white-wine but far more aromatick tasted the meat or kernel is better relished than our Phelberds and is enough to satisfy the appetite of two reasonable men The Indian Nut alone Is cloathing meat and trencher drink and Can. Boat Cable Sail Mast Needle all in one Herb. And Sylvester hath set them forth to the life in these verses The Indian Isles most admirable be In those rare fruits call'd Coquos commonly The which alone far richer wonder yeilds Then all our Groves Meads gardens orchards Fields What wouldst thou drink the wounded leaves drop wine Lackst thou fine linnen dresse the tender rine Dresse it like Flax spin it then weave it well It shall thy Camrick and thy Lawn excell Longst thou for Butter bite the poulpous part For never better came to any mart Do'st need good Oyle then boult it to and fro And passing Oyl it soon becometh so Or Vinegar to whet thine appetite Why Sun it well and it will sharply bite Or want's thou Sugar steep the same a stownd And sweeter Sugar is not to be found 'T is what you will or will be what you would Should Midas touch it sure it would be gold And God all-good to crown our life with Bayes The Earth with plenty and his Name with praise Had done enough if he had made no more But this one plant so full of choicest store Save that the world where one thing breeds satiety Could not be fair without so great variety 32. The Plantan Tree is of a reasonable height the body about the bigness of a mans thigh compacted of many leaves wrapped one upon another adorned with leaves in stead of boughs from the very ground which are for the most part about two ells long and an ell broad having a large rib in the middle thereof The fruit is a bunch of ten or twelve Plantans each a span long and as big almost as a mans wrist the rind being stripped off the fruit is yellowish and of a pleasant taste Pur. Pil. p. 416. 33. The Cedars of Mount Libanus grow higher than Pines and so big that four or five men with their armes can but fathom them the boughs rise not upward but stretch out a cross largely spread and thickly enfolded one in another as if done by Art so that men may sit and lie along upon the boughs the leaves are thick narrow hard prickly and alwayes green the wood is hard incorruptible and sweet smelling the fruit like the Cones of Cypress gummy and marvellous fragrant Pur. Pil. v. 2. p. 1500. 34. In Africa are many Palmeta trees whence they draw a sweet and wholsome Wine by cutting or boring holes into the body of the Tree into which a Cane is put that receives the sap and conveys it into Gourds It tastes like white Wine but it will not last above four and twenty hours Idem 35. In New-Spain there are many trees which they call Manguey It hath great and large leaves at the end whereof is a strong and sharp point which they use for pins and needles and out of the leaf they draw a kind of thred which they use much to few with The body of the Tree is big which when it is tender they cut and out of the hole proceeds a liquor which they drink like water being fresh and sweet This liquor being sodden becomes Wine which being kept till it be sower makes good Vinegar Boil it it a litle more than for Wine and it makes a fine Syrup and boil it till it be thick and it makes Hony Idem v. 3. p. 957. 36. There is a certain Tree in New-Spain called Tunalls in whose leaves breed certain small worms which are covered with a fine web compassing them in daintily This in the season they gather and let it drye and this is that Cochenille so famous and dear wherewith they Dye in grain Idem 37. The Jack or Giack is an high tree and uneasy to be ascended the Jack for shew and bigness resembles a Pumpeon without it is of a gold yellow mixt with veins within its soft and tender full of golden coloured cloves each full of kernels not unlike a great French Bean but more round each of them hath an hard stone within it the fruit is somewhat unpleasant at the first taste t is glutinous and clammy in the mouth but very restorative and good for the back 38. The Ananas is not inferiour to the Jack in bulk and roundnesse It ariseth from no seed or sowing but from a root like an Artichok when they are ripe they shew themselves and are not above two foot high without it is covered with a drie rind hard and skaley within its wholesome and pleasant and though a little of it seems to satiate the appetite yet the stomach likes it well and its easie of digestion 39. The Duroyen is somewhat like the Jack in shape round the inward vertue is far greater than the outward beauty at first opening it hath an unpleasant smell the meat is whitish and divided into a dozen cells or partitions filled with stones as big as Chesnuts white and cordial It s a fruit nutritive and dainty and may well be called an Epitome of all the best and rarest fruits in the the Orient 40. The Arec-tree is almost as high as a Cedar but more like the Palmeto I'ts of a fuzzie hollow substance adorned at every top with Plumes