CAESAR FREDERICK a.d. 



1563-81. 

 not into these parts : for that in India they consume 

 great store, and that is very deare. The good Lignum Lignum Aloes. 

 Aloes commeth from Cauchinchina. 



The Benjamin commeth from the kingdome of Assi Benjamin. 

 and Sion. 



Long peper groweth in Bengala, Pegu, and Java. Longpeper. 



Muske commeth from Tartaria, which they make in T'his Muske 

 this order, as by good information I have bene told. ^^^ ^^"^'^l ^°^ 

 There is a certaine beast in Tartaria, which is wilde and '^^takemt hdfe 

 as big as a wolfe, which beast they take alive, & beat the good muske 

 him to death with small staves y^ his blood may be aiid beat the 

 spread through his whole body, then they cut it in P^hofanasse 

 pieces, & take out all the bones, & beat the flesh with ^J^;;;^VT/ 

 the blood in a morter very smal, and dry it, and make 

 purses to put it in of the skin, and these be the cods 

 of muske. 



Truely I know not whereof the Amber is made, and 

 there are divers opinions of it, but this is most certaine, 

 it is cast out of the Sea, and throwne on land, and 

 found upon the sea bankes. 



The Rubies, Saphyres, and the Spinels be gotten in Rubies, Sa- 

 the kingdome of Pegu. The Diamants come from My/'^^y ^"^ 

 divers places ; and I know but three sorts of them. ^^^^ ^' 

 That sort of Diamants that is called Chiappe, commeth 

 from Bezeneger. Those that be pointed naturally come 

 from the land of Delly, and from Java, but the 

 Diamants of Java are more waightie then the other. 

 I could never understand from whence they that are 

 called Balassi come. The Balassi 



Pearles they fish in divers places, as before in this <^^'^^J^ ^■' 

 booke is showne. 



From Cambaza commeth the Spodiom which congeleth ^P'^^^'^"^- 



1 r T r J • -n 1 On the coast of 



in certaine canes, whereof 1 found many in Pegu, when ]^gi^„^^ ip^ 



I made my house there, because that (as I have said Ethiopia^ in 



before) they make their houses there of woven canes i^e land of 



like to mats. From Chaul they trade alongst the coast ^^^'^^^^^J^e 



of MeHnde in Ethiopia, within the land of Cafraria : on ^that tyPor- 



that coast are many good harbors kept by the Moores. tugals have. 



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