making tough meat tender, by being rubbed over with it.
The caſhew apples grow of different forms, ſizes, and colours, ſome being ſhaped like a quince, and of the ſame colour, ſome longer, more round, leſs, and of a purple colour, and others of both colours; but all have the ſame aſtringent quality as the quince. Theſe apples have each a nut, which grows out in the middle of their tops, and is of the ſhape of a kidney; the ſhell of which nut contains an oil of a corroſive quality that will conſume iron; and being rubbed on the ſkin of a perſon, it will cauſe it to bliſter, as if burnt or ſcalded. The apple is uſually roaſted, the juice preſſed out, and put hot into punch, to which it gives a very fine flavour. The nut is alſo roaſted, and the kernel of it is eſteemed preferable to that of any other nut whatever. Of theſe nuts, quantities are often ſent from this iſland to England as preſents.
