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provide good fodder for cattle and sheep.

This tree alone is enough

The Portuguese also know how to make brandy from it. The trunk of the Cocos-boom coconut tree serves the Indians to prepare a skiff, without a single iron nail coming near it. Sails and ropes all come from this tree. One prepares head-hats or covers from it against the rain; likewise mats for covers over the palanquins, in which the women allow themselves to be carried. The shell of the nut serves as a drinking cup.
for everything that man needs in this life.

The outermost shaggy husk [is used] for work, to stop the cracks of ships with it. Then the innermost part, they make, besides the drinking vessels, also spoons and bowls to eat from or to scoop water with. With the milk from the coconut, they cook their rice. From the sap, an excellent sugar is prepared. The oil is good to use for their food or to burn in lamps. It serves furthermore against many kinds of ailments. In short, an entire ship, with everything that belongs to it, consists solely of the coconut tree: people, with everything they need for shelter and food, can draw enough for their maintenance from the same; and one can say that they themselves, because of the use for food and drink, consist more than half of coconut.

Pepper.

Around Caranganor grows much pepper: which they dry in the sun, so that it, if sown elsewhere, might not sprout, to their detriment.
Ginger.

The pepper trees are nowhere in Indiën the Indies so plentiful as here; yet they are not large. Abundantly much ginger is harvested here. One also has there
Myrobalans.

Cassia.

Myrobalans, cassia, and almost all kinds of spices. With this, the Moors drive a great trade, since these things are transported to Babylonien Babylonia or Alcair Cairo, a city on the river Nile; from there to Alexandria, Damascus, and finally into Persien Persia. They also bring them over the mountains to Cathay China. This now shall be enough of the city of Caranganor: we turn therefore back to Calicuth Calicut.
Almost all kinds of spices.