86 BUST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



AMCAHA 

 THE ART OF ANGLING. 



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 TO CATCH 



TAKE Coculus Indicus^ which is a poisonous 

 narcotic, called also bacca piscatonce y fisher's ber* 

 ries, and pound them in a mortar, then make balls 

 of the paste which will be produced (by adding a 

 sufficient quantity of water) about the size of a 

 pea, and throw them into a standing-water j the 

 fish that taste of it will be very soon intoxicated, 

 and will rise and lie on the surface of the watery 

 put your landing-net under them, and take them 

 out. 



Coeulns Indicus is a little berry, about as big 

 as a bay-berry, but more of a kidney shape, hav- 

 ing a wrinkled outside, with a searn running 

 lengthways from the back to the navel ': it is of 

 a bitterish taste, being the fruit of a tree describ- 

 ed in the seventh volume of the Hortus Mala- 

 laricus, under the name of Naslatum, bearing 

 leaves in the shape of a heart, and bunches of 

 five-leaved white flowers, which are succeeded 

 by their berries. They grow in Malabar in the 

 East Indies. They are seldom used in physic > 

 being accounted to be of a hurtful and pernici- 

 ous nature, but their principal use is for catching 

 fishes: the famous Cardan's celebrated receipt 



