The Datura II and Moral! 



\ve fee Tome are taken therewith paffing rivers in 

 Barkes : others in like fort going in Codies ancTCarol* 

 res, according to the divers complexions of the fto- 

 macke : as contrariwife , there are fome,ho\v boiftrous 

 and troublefome foever thefea be , doe never fecle it. 

 Wherefore it is a matter ccrtaine, & tried,that the aire 

 of the Tea, doth commonly caufe this effed infuchas 

 newly go to fea.I thought good to fpeake this, to fliew 

 a ftrange effecfi, which happens in fome partes of the In- 

 dfefjwhere the ayre & the wind that rains make men da- 

 fcie^notlcfie^but more then atfea. Some hold itfor afa- 

 b!e,others fay it is an addition: for my part I will fpeake 

 what I have tried . There is in Peru , a high mountainc 

 which they call Panacaca , and having heard fpeake of 

 thealteratibn it bred,I went as well prepared as I could, 

 according to the inftru&ions which was given me , by 

 fuch as they call raguianos or expert men : but not- 

 Withftaftding all my provifion,when I came to mount 

 the degrces,as they call them , which is the top of this 

 mountaine, I was fuddenly furprizcd with fo mortall 

 and ftrange a pang^that I was ready to fall from the top 

 to the ground: and although we were many in compa 

 ny ,yct every one made hafte (without any tarrying for 

 his companion,) to free himfelfe fpeedily from this ill 

 paf&ge. Being then alone with one Indian, whom I in- 

 treated to helpe to ftay me, Iwasfurprifed with fuch 

 pangs of draining & cafting, as I thought to caft vp my 

 heart tor>^ for having caft vp meate,fleugme,& choller, 

 both yellow and greene 5 in the end I caft vp blood, 

 with the ftraining of my ftomacke . To conclude , if 

 this had continued, Ifhould vndoubtedly have died- 

 but this lafted not above three or foure houres, that we 

 were corneinto a more convenient and naturall tcmpc- 



