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days they are steeped in pure water, to rid them of their 

 bitterness ; afterwards they are slightly dried in the sun, and 

 finally they are pickled in brine, which is made of sea-water, 

 saturated with salt to such an extent that an egg will float in 

 it. In this way they are put in well-closed jars, and can be kept 

 good for years. They should remain in pickle for a month 

 before they can be used. These lemons so pickled and mixed 

 with powdered sulphur clean and dry up all kinds of skin 

 eruptions, in such a way that the granulating surfaces 

 become a dry scab. Instead of sulphur, powder of ' pyrius ' 

 can be taken, and if too irritating it should be mixed with a 

 little lime. Indeed the two together mitigate irritation, as 

 much as we found lime and Sirium (a kind of plant) do in 

 mastication. 



" In order to give a blue colour to steel blades, such as 

 swords, and those called Krissen, there are no lemons better 

 than these. They are better than L imo Papeda, and lemon 

 carboit, which are not used except for want of the former. 



" Moreover in them there is some mucilage, which, when 

 the juice is mixed with corrosive sublimate, or Varinga* pre- 

 serves and adheres to the blades better. If these arms be 

 cleaned and polished by any other substance, then they are 

 smeared over with this prepared juice, as was explained in 

 chap. 37, by which they at once, from blue become darker. 

 They are then lightly cleaned with a dry cloth, dipped 

 in oil, and put by. 



" Although in Europe we are taught that citrons can coun- 

 teract every poison, the contrary is taught by the Indians. 

 Certainly many poisons, not all however, are excited by 

 lemon juice. This is established by these arms becoming 

 covered with a blue colour. Moreover, those mostly forbid 

 the use of this juice (in cases of poisoning) who may have 

 (on some occasion) taken poison, and by experience had 

 found that lemon juice gave it more power, f 



" If eight or ten of these limes are cut and their juice 

 squeezed into a clean pan and allowed to lie for a night or 



* I have given the proper names as they are in Rumphius, but I fear 

 many of them are wrongly spelt. 



f It is not easy to get at the real meaning of these last sentences in 

 the original. 



