. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. 28z A M E<R^I C A. Chap. VI. ^ The Root CafianntU- The The tVtrd isthe Caxabra, which (hoots upro a great Tree full of prickly Cods; at the utmoft end grpv*$ a large white. Flower 5 the Fruit, which is as big again as an Egg, ispleafant and cooling. The fourth fort hath a ftraight Body full of Prickles, runs lelTer and leiTer to the top ; at the end of the fmall Boughs, each thick Leaf produces another j the Wood, if kindled, burns like a Candle. The fifth, nam'd Cumbeba, grows out of fmall Roots, with three or four corner'd thick Leaves, full of Prickles, the Flower fomewhat lefs than the former, the Fruit oval, hard and red, having a white and juicy Pulp : The Prickles of this Qumbeba- Tree are fo fliarp, and flick in fo deep, that they can fcarce be pull'd out. This is that fort of Tunas that produces'Cochinele, which is a Worm that grows under the Leaves, and is covet'd with a Skin, which being neatly taken offand dry'd in the Sun, as formerly mention'd, becomes a rich Commodity. Jofeph de Acofta tells us, that the Spanijh Fleet, Anno 1578. carried fo much Cocbinele to Spain, as amounted to two hundred eighty three thoufand feven hundred and fifty Ryals. But the laft fort of the Tunas is the Unirumbeba, which hath a ftraight Body full of Prickles, on the top whereof grow divers prickly Leaves, not unlike thofc of the Pa
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