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teen more taken put of a tree ac a time than a Firkin nil! hold,as clear as running water, but if drunken, it is exceeding strong,and causoth thirst, it must. bee taken very moderately. Theybuild most commonly in some hollow bough of the tree, or elsein the body of a tree, called by the Indiaru] Ktrauvab , theyhave their hony in clusters of balls, much like our Humble-Bees, and their young ones in combes which lye comjafscdwith the balls of hony, and in the balls.you (hall find tome honyas it is new brought in,very thick and dry, but taste it, it is verysome, and so some more near ripe , but not fit to eat, until! itcome to be*clcar as water; you may fee in the balls or clusters,the colour of the bloffome from whence it was gathered,

There are two other sorts of Bees that are but small, and of ablack colour,one sort stingeth not, but tbe other doth ; they arevery like each to other, and build about the middle of the tree,the hony of them both is much alike, but nP so good as theformer, being of a darker colour, and their combes are inmanner with the former, and they are called Erete.

There are other sorts of black Bees called Erepso&and E rep-nthujon, they both sting, and intangle much in a man* hair, theone buildeth in the hollow of a tree , and the other in the bran-ches, that which buildeth in the hollow of a tree, will nor sufferany man to come within two or three rods of the tree wherethey are.

I never saw any of their hony, but the natives have told me,that they have indifferent store, but it is very laxative, andbreedeth diseases in the(cacer, as bloody Fixes, &c. the otherbuildeth in the branches, and make their house of dirt, biggerthan one of our large Bee»hives, and enter at the middle of it,their young are aj it were, in little cells or chambers , and fiomthence between several layings of dirt, they have their hony,which is not very much, but is binding.

There ijanother small fort of Bees, and they either bu>lcW>infidds, where there are bo: small store of trees, and they lowone;; they are of an ashy colour,and build in the branches like£ref«ei/.but their nefl*is like a film,or skin-and of the colour ofthe Bee , they have not much hony,and have a thin flat combe,or else they build among the Tobacoes, and fiom theefe theylakethfif name, being called Tstacrfz/tf.