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Show THE THIRD ‘BOOKE OF THE the colour andtafte ofa blanched Almond; withinthe cauitie or hollownes'thereof,is contained amoft delectable liquor like vnto milke,and of a moft pleafanttafte. aa Indica. # The Indian Nut tree. are/s whi oho cea4 The diftilledliquor is called Sw/z,and the oyle that is madethereof copra: The Indian Nut, i and the fruit ov name A are/ is common ainoneft Perfians aiid Arita: irik datedola ae. Sune enh theripe fruit Tevea,andthe greene fruite Elers sin Goairis called ie ah: al yen : the nuit Wihore , I ANwx indica arbor. HISTORIE OF PLANTS. heaning Nuts: of Auicex Lancia Lindi: of the vuleate people Maro, The temperature, ; ‘ Irisofa meane temperature betweene horandcolde. % The vertues and v/e. The Indians do vie to cut the twigs andtender branches toward the euening, attheends where=\q ofthey hang bottle gourds , hollow canes, and fuch like things, fit torecejue the wares thardiop~ eth fromthe branches thereof, whichpleafant liquor they drinke in {teede-of wine ; from the whichis drawena ftrotg and comfortable Aqua vitz, which they viein time of neceffitic avaink allmanner of ficknefles ; of the branches and boughes they make their houfes ; of the crunkeor bodyofthe tree {hips and boatess ofthe hempe on the outward part ofthe fruit, they make ropes ; andcables,and of thefiner {tuffe failes for their ships. Likewile they make of the thell ofthe Nut, cups todrinke in, which we likewifé vein England, B ganifhed sith filuer for the famepurpofes, {hekernell ferueth themforbread and meates the milkieitice doth ferue to coole and refrefh their fainting {pirits: out of the kernell whenitis ftampedis prefleda moft pretious oyle, not onely goodformeate, butalfo formedicine, wherewith theyannointtheir feeble tims after their tedious tranell, by meanes whereofthe ache andpaineis miigatedjand other infirmities quite taken away proceedingofother caufes, Ofthe Dragon tree. I Dracosrbor. The Dragontree, 3 Nusuls Indica. Thelittle Indian Nut. Sy eatieee ive bane Bh edie fromthofe che that haue trauelled into the Indies, of 5 which beareth this lictle Indian Nica of ourowne knowledge, more tian we any thing thatwefee by experience, that the fruit hercot 1s lefler wherein confifteth the difference, % The place. itandesof This Indian Nut groweth in all the at fae the Weft Indies, efpecially in Hupanie! nent ;by and §.Iohns Iland, and alfo vpon the eeoe| Carthagena, Nombre de Dios, ee in Virginia otherwife called Norem ei the fame continent; for the moft patt efound the fea fide,and in moyft places 5 {eldomete the vplandifh countries. _ fe Thetimt. ; * fommer. It groweth greene wintet ane Nin % The zames. Ere hatdwee® that A: Portingales a the of Cocus: Indians the of Indica: 274x Latine in called Thefruitis t ne head of a ™ f the Eaft Indies Cocco, taken from the end wherein are three holes, teprefenting kie: Serapioand Rha/is do call the tree Lavalnare,td eit, Arborem Nuciferam ditt, haristo fay.at° bearing Chap.t35. Draconisfrudlu, The Dragontree fruit, $ea ottete 1338 next vnto the fhell vponthe infide there cleaueth a white cornelliefubftancefirme and folide, of |