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Rh a coniderable branch of traffic under the name of copra. Arrack, a coare ort of ugar, called jagree, and vinegar are alo extracted from it, beides many other particulars too tedious to enumerate. The cultivation of it is extremely eay, by means of channels conveying water to the roots, and a manure laid round them, coniting of the mall fry of fih, known by the name of buckhaw.

There are alo here and there interpered a few brab—trees, or rather wild palm trees; (the word brab being derived from Brabo, which in Portuguee ignifies Wild) that bear an inpid kind of fruit, about the ize of a common pear, and