[Sca-cooks] Indian Nut

[Terry Decker]

As a small aside, the Spanish appear to have introduced coconuts into the 
Caribbean from the Pacific side of Central America, which would place the 
event somewhere around 1513 (Balboa's Pacific Coast excursion).

Bear

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> 17th century and out of period with the Dutch.  He opinions that the
> Portuguese introduced it into the Atlantic Ocean basin after 1500 and the
> Spanish to the Caribbean in the early 16th century.
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> Daniel