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and put into bags made of leaves, laying them for 15 

 daies together abroad in the sun, & at the end of those 

 15 dayes, when the said licour is throughly parched, it 

 becommeth meale. Then they steepe it first in sea 

 water, washing it afterward with fresh water, and so it is 

 made very good & savorie paste, wherof they make either 

 meat or bread, as they thinke good. Of which bread I 

 my selfe did eate, & it is fayrer without & somewhat 

 A sea running browne within. By this countrey is the sea called Mare 

 stili South- mortuum, which runneth continually Southward, into ye 

 which whosoever falleth is never scene after. In this 

 countrey also are found canes of an incredible length, 

 namely of 60 paces high or more, & they are as bigge as 

 trees. Other canes there be also called Cassan, which 

 overspread the earth like grasse, & out of every knot of 

 them spring foorth certaine branches, which are continued 

 upon the ground almost for the space of a mile. In the 

 sayd canes there are found certaine stones, one of which 

 stones, whosoever carryeth about with him, cannot be 

 wounded with any yron : & therefore the men of that 

 countrey for the most part, carry such stones with them, 

 whithersoever they goe. Many also cause one of the 

 armes of their children, while they are yong, to be 

 launced, putting one of the said stones into the wound, 

 healing also, and closing up the said wound with the 

 powder of a certaine fish (the name whereof I do not 

 know) which powder doth immediatly consolidate and 

 cure the said wound. And by the vertue of these stones, 

 the people aforesaid doe for the most part triumph both 

 on sea and land. Howbeit there is one kind of strata- 

 geme, which the enemies of this nation, knowing the 

 vertue of the sayd stones, doe practise against them : 

 namely, they provide themselves armour of yron or 

 Steele against their arrowes, & weapons also poisoned 

 with the poyson of trees, & they carry in their hands 

 wooden stakes most sharpe & hard-pointed, as if they 

 were yron : likewise they shoot arrowes without yron 

 heads, and so they confound & slay some of their un- 



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