Excerpt from Producção e Commercio de BorrachaA borracha já era conhecida dos aborígenes, quando Colombo aportou á. America. A primeira menção que della se tem, deve-se a Herrera, de volta da segunda viagem do grande genovês. No livro De orbe novo, de Anghiera, se depara noticia dos usos que, entre os selvagens, havia, na feitura de pélas, e, noutro, de Sahagun, His toria Geral das Causas da N ova Hespanha, se fala das virtudes medi cinaes da ulli, resina negra, produzida pela arvore denominada fulequahuitl.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.