. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. at those fruites were then there grow-ing : but the reason thereof is this, because they beingbetweene the Tropike and the Equinoctial!, the Sunnepasseth twise in the yeere through their Zenith overtheir heads, by meanes whereof they have two Summers,& being so neere the heate of the line, they never losethe heate of the Sunne so much, but the fruites havetheir increase and co
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. at those fruites were then there grow-ing : but the reason thereof is this, because they beingbetweene the Tropike and the Equinoctial!, the Sunnepasseth twise in the yeere through their Zenith overtheir heads, by meanes whereof they have two Summers,& being so neere the heate of the line, they never losethe heate of the Sunne so much, but the fruites havetheir increase and continuance in the midst of Island is wonderfully stored with goates andwilde hennes, and it hath salt also without labour, saveonely that the people gather it into heapes, whichcontinually in great quantitie is increased upon thesands by the flowing of the sea, and the receivingheate of the Sunne kerning the same, so that of theincrease thereof they keepe a continuall trafiique withtheir descrip- Amongst Other things we found here a kind of fruitr °V^^- V^ called Cocos, which because it is not commonly knowenCom vjith. us in England, I thought good to make some description of it. 104. DRAKES DRUM DRAKES CIRCUMNAVIGATION 1578. The tree beareth no leaves nor branches, but at thevery top the fruit groweth in clusters, hard at the topof the stemme of the tree, as big every severall fruiteas a mans head : but having taken off the uttermostbarke, which you shall find to bee very full of stringsor sinowes, as I may terme them, you shall come to ahard shell which may holde of quantitie in liquor apint commonly, or some a quart, and some lesse :within that shell of the thicknesse of halfe an inchgood, you shall have a kinde of hard substance andvery white, no lesse good and sweete then almonds :within that againe a certaine cleare liquor, which beingdrunke, you shall not onely finde it very delicate andsweete, but most comfortable and cordiall. After wee h
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