'Bettile  '•  isaleafcfomewhatlikeaBay-Ieafe.and  climbethl;keluic,3ndhathn6(t*
ther  fruit:  neither  is  any  fruit  more  in  vfe  then  thefe  leaues:  at  bedandboord,  and  in
the  ftreets  as  they  paffe, they  chew  theie  leaues;  and  in  their  gofTippings  or  vifitting
of  their  friends,  they  are  piefently  prefented  with  them;  and  eatethcm  with  Arccea,
which  \i  a  kind  of  Indian  Nut.It  faueth  their  teeth  from  difeafes,  but  couloureth  them
as  if  they  were  painted  with  blacke  bloud.  When  they  chew  it,  they  fpit  out  the  iuice,
and  it  is  almoft  the  onely  exercife  of  fome,  which  thinkc  they  could  not  liue,  if  they
fhould  abftaine  one  day  from  it.
They  haue  an  herbe  called  'DutroA,  which  caiifeth  difiraflion,  without  vnderftan-
ng  any  thing  done  in  a  mans  prcfence :  fometimes  it  maketh  a  man  flecpe,  as  if  he


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fcribcthchis
tree  outof  the
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V\m.  lib.  1 1,
Curt.lS.Strabo
lib.'i.Theofhra-
fluilib.^.  and
mcntioneih
like  kinds  (if
not  the  fame)
oucofio//f5^
de  Cj(i.igncila
lib.T.  Omeda
lib. 6.  LofCT^  or
Vigufctta  of
Congo,  Sic. C 111 f.
Exot.lib.i.c.i.
q  Garcia!  ab
Horto,ltb.i.c.i,
C.  Acosla.c.^7.
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moftm  Mala-
bar.
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