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… This huske being dry and pulled off is It happen eth oftentimes that by continuance of time the water within the Cocus doth convert and congeale into a certaine kind of yellow Apple, which is very The huske being taken off, the shell serveth for many uses, as to make Ladles with woodden handles, and savourie and sweet. also certaine little pots, which being fastened to a sticke, they doe therewith take and lade water out of their great pots. Of the white of these Nuts in India they make pottage, and dre e meate with all, strayning and pre ing out the Milke, wherein with many other mixtures they seeth their Rice.”. {Pilgrimes 2. 1778.).. Compare the lines: The savourie pulp they chew, and in the rinde Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream. (P. L. 4. 335-336.) Fruits of Palm-tree pleasantest to thirst And hunger both. {lb. 8. 212-13.) Small store will serve, where store, AH seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk. ilh. 5. 322-323.) The last, though it may have come from some such source as Homer’s description of the garden of Alcinolis {q. v.), resembles a pa age by Linschoten: “The trees whereon the Jambos doe grow are as great as Plum trees, and very like unto them; it is an excellent and a very pleasant fruit to looke on, as big as an Apple; it hath a red colour and somewhat whitish, so cleare and pure, that it seemeth to be painted or made of Wax; it is very pleasant to eate, and smelleth like Rose water; it is white within, and in eating moist and waterish; it is a most dainty fruit, as well for beauty to the sight, as for the sweet savour and taste. The blo oms are likewise very faire to the sight, and have a sweet smell; they are red and somewhat whitish of colour. This tree beareth fruit three or foure times every yeere, and, which is more wonder full, it hath commonly on the one side or halfe of the tree ripe Jambos, and the leaves fallen off, and on the... other side or halfe it hath all the leaves, and beginneth againe to blo ome, and when that side hath fruit, and that the leaves fall off, then the other side beginneth againe to have leaves, and to blo ome, and so it continueth all the yeere long.” {Pilgrimes Linschoten tells also of a fig-tree which “beareth fruit and so continueth all the yeere long, and never leaveth bearing.” 2. 1776.) The lines, Save what by frugal storing firmne gains To nourish, and superfluous moist consumes {P. L. 5. 325-326), suggest Linschoten’s account of certain figs: “They are cut off when they are but halfe ripe, that is to say, when they are as yet halfe greene and halfe yellow, and hanged up in their houses upon beames, and so within foure or five dayes they will be fully ripe and all yellow.” ch151.xhtml c 169