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¶ The Vertues and vse.
The Indians do vse to cut the twigs and tender branches toward the euening, at the ends where∣of [ A] they haue bottle gourds, hollow canes, and such like things, fit to receiue the water that drop∣peth from the branches thereof, which pleasant liquor they drinke in stead of wine; from the which is drawne a strong and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aqua Vitae, which they vse in time of need against all manner of sicknesses; of the branches and boughes they make their houses; of the trunk or body of the tree, ships and boates; of the hempon the outward part of the fruit, they make ropes and cables; and of the siner stuffe, sailes for their ships.
Likewise they make of the shell of the Nut, cups to drinke in, which we likewise vse in England, [ B] garnished with siluer for the same purposes. The kernell serueth them for bread and meat; the milkie iuice doth serue to coole and refresh their wearied spirits: out of the kernel when it is stam∣ped, is pressed a most precious oile, not onely good for meat, but also for medicine, wherewith they annoint their feeble lims after their tedious trauell, by meanes whereof the ache and paine is miti∣gated, and other infirmities quite taken away proceeding of other causes.