As to medicinal productions, there is to be found the tree that affords the gum
     elemi, used in our apothecaries' shops. Likewise guaiacum, or lignum sanctum,
     lignum aloes, or aloe-wood, cassia lignea, China-roots, with several others. The
     tree called mapou, besides that it is medicinal, is also used for making of ca-
     noes, as being very thick; yet is it much inferior to the acajou or cedar, as
     being somewhat spongy, whereby it sucks in much water, rendering it dangerous in
     navigation. The tree called acoma has its wood very hard and heavy, of the co-
     lour of palm. These qualities render it very fit to make oars for the sugar mills.
     Here are also in great quantities brasilete, or brazil-wood, and that which the
     Spaniards call mançanilla.
     Brazil-wood is now very well known in the provinces of Holland and the Low Coun-
     tries. By another name it is called by the Spaniards Lenna de Peje palo. It ser-
     ves only, or chiefly, for dyeing, and what belongs to that trade. It grows abun-
     dantly along the sea coasts of this island, especially in two places called Jac-
     mel and Jaquina. These are two commodious ports or bays, capable of receiving
     ships of the greatest bulk.
     The tree called mançanilla, or dwarf-apple-tree, grows near the sea shore, being
     naturally so low that its branches, though never so short, always touch the
     water. It bears a fruit something like our sweet-scented apples, which notwith-
     standing is of a very venomous quality. For these apples being eaten by any per-
     son, he instantly changes colour, and such a huge thirst seizes him as all the wa-
     ter of the Thames cannot extinguish, he dying raving mad within a little while af-
     ter. But what is more, the fish that eat, as it often happens, of this fruit are
     also poisonous. This tree affords also a liquor, both thick and white, like the
     fig-tree, which, if touched by the hand, raises blisters upon the skin, and these
     are so red in colour as if it had been deeply scalded with hot water. One day be-
     ing hugely tormented with mosquitos or gnats, and as yet unacquainted with the na-
     ture of this tree, I cut a branch thereof, to serve me instead of a fan, but all
     my face swelled the next day and filled with blisters, as if it were burnt to such
     a degree that I was blind for three days.
     Ycao is the name of another sort of tree, so called by the Spaniards, which grows
     by the side of rivers. This bears a certain fruit, not unlike our bullace or dam-
     son plums. And this food is extremely coveted by the wild boar, when at its per-
     fect maturity, with which they fatten as much as our hogs with the sweetest acorns
     of Spain. These trees love sandy ground, yet are so low that, their branches being
     very large, they take up a great circumference, almost couched upon the ground.