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The Brama’s, which are of the King’s Country (for the King is a Bra- 
ma) have their Legs, Bellies, or fome part of their Body, as they think 
good themfelves, made black with certain Things which they have. The y 
ufe to prick the Skin, and to put on ita kind of Anile or Blacking, which 
doth contiuue always; this iscounted an Honour among them; which 
none may have but the Brama’s, who are of the King’s Kindred, 
Fitch ap. Haklayt. Tom, 2. p. 262, ap. Purchas. lib. 10. cap. 6. p- 1741. 
About the Year 1620, the Trade for Indigo ftood thus. Three 
hundred and fifty thoufand Pound of Indigo was {pent ina Year in Exrope 
which at 45. 6d. per Lib. at Aleppo coft 758331. 65.8d. Mun 4p. 
Purchas, cap. 17. p.734- atis.2d. per Lib. in Eaft India coft 204161. 
12 s. 44. and is us’d for dying Cloath chiefly. Two hundred thoufand 
Pound of Indigo {pent yearly in England, at 1 s.2d. cofts 11666 f. 13 5. 
44, Soldat § 5. comes to 50000 /. One hundred and fifty thoufand Pound 
of Indigo, at 7 s. per Lib, when from Turkey, is 52500 /. 
Du Val Nott.in Pyrard, p. 129. fays tis made in Cambaye. 
Rob. Tomfon. ap, Hakl. p. 454. found it about Mexico, where ’tis us’d 
to die Blue, ’tis made ofa certain Herb that groweth wild inthe Fields, 
is gather’d at one Time of the Year, burnt, and of the Afhes thereof, 
with other ConfeCtions put thereunto, the faid Indigo is made. 
M. Rich. Hakluyt. p. 2. p- 160. propofes among other Things, for the 
Good of our Cloathing Trade, that Anile, wherewith we colour Blue, 
fhould be brought into this Realm by Seed or Root, and the Art of com- 
pounding the fame. In St. Salvador on Coffa Rica, I beftow’d that which 
Icarry’d in Anile (which is a kind of Thing to die Blue withall) to Pore 
of Cavales in Honduras, from whence ’tis fhip’d for Spain. Chilton. ap. 
Hakl. p. 3. p. 558. and p. 491. reckons it one of the Commodities exported 
from Merida on Taha/co River in Campeche Province. 
Polo. apud Purchas. lib. 1. p. 106, met with it in Cambaia, 
Indigo, one hundred and fixty fix Pounds, fold about the Red Sea, for, 
from thirty fiveto fifty Rials. Saris ap. Purchas. lib, 4. cap. 1. p. 347. 
Petty Hakl, p. 3. p. 814. found itin Sonfonate, 
Smith of Virginia, p.149. tells us ’tis one of their wealthy Commodi- 
ties in the Weft Indies, and that ’tis inthe Swmmer Ifles, but planted there. 
171. Ligon. found it in Barbadoes.p. 42. Rawolfe. lib. 1. cap. 8. fays’tis 
brought from India to Aleppo, as a Commodity. Terry. p. 113. tells us 
they put Indigo Leaves {tripped off the Branches to heat and fweat in 
Heaps certain Days before Infufion, after which they let it evaporate b 
the Sun in exceeding broad and fhallow Veffels made of Plaifter of Paris. 
The beft Sort is from Béawa near Agra, the courfer from Cirkeefe, not far 
from Amadavat, and p.192. that ’tis planted there by the Coolees. 
Mandelflo, p. 206. met with it in Madaga/car, but therethey make 
it not into a Pafte. 
Ay mucho color azul muy fino in Efpanola. Lepez de Gom. cap. 26. 
IX. Colutee affinis fruticofa argenten, floribus [picatis e viridi purpurcs, 
filiquis falcatis. Cat. Jam. p. 142. Tab, 176. Fig. 3. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. p. 452. 
An Colinil Hort. Mal. Part. 1 .p. 103 ? fen polygala indica minor filiquis re- 
curvis. Syen. tb. p. 104? Raij. Hift. p. 1734? & 1892? An Colutea Curaffa- 
vice argentea anguftt folia. Par. Bat. pr. p. 325? vel colutea Indica fra- 
tefcens foltjs (uperne glabris virentibus fubtus fericeo nitore Angenteo [plen- 
dentibus, Plukenet Alm, p. 112? Colutea Indica feu Indigo Sylveftris polyceratos 
filiquis recurvis Americanus, Ejufd. ib? feu frutex primus innominatus Macar. 
lib, 2° cap. 8. p. 68? vel bord Orobus arborefcens minus incanus,glycyrhiza 
Jolijs flore [picato Americanus pediculo pinnarum rubente. Breyn. p,2? An In- 
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