They make honey from this tree; also oakum with which to calk ships, which lasts in the water, when that from here would rot.

Likewise they make rigging, which they call _cayro_; and they make an excellent match for arquebuses, which, without any other attention, is never extinguished.

The shoots resemble wild artichokes while they are tender.

There is a plant with leaves after the shape and fashion of the ivy, which is a certain species of pepper which they call buyo, the use of which is common throughout the whole archipelago; and it is so excellent a specific against ulcerated teeth that I do not remember ever having heard it said that any native suffered from them, nor do they need to have them pulled.

It is a good stimulant for the stomach, and leaves a pleasant odor in the mouth.
There is a bird which they call _tabon_, a little larger than a partridge; and it buries its eggs, which are as large as goose eggs, to the number of eighty or a hundred, half an estado deep in the sand of the bays of the sea.