Note 256 — A true and agreeable description of some principal Indian lands and islands, which have not been recorded in former chronicles, but have now been first explored amid great danger during the voyage of Ulrich Schmidt of Straubing, and most carefully described by him. (continued 2)
Reading edition
This description is greatly exaggerated. The bees make their hives (called in Guaraní camoati) on the branches of the trees, and it is from the hive, of course, not from the tree, that the honey is taken.