ORGANELLES. 435 



fan * ; that the oriental bezoar is generated in 

 their ftomachs ; that this ftone is found, not on- 

 ly in Perfia, but Hkewife in Malacca, and in the 

 llland of Cows near Qipe Comorin ; and that, in 

 great numbers of thefe goats, flainforthe fubfift- 

 ence of the troops, thefe ftones were very com- 

 monly found. On this fubje<ff, Chriftopher A- 

 coftat repeats what had been laid by Garcias and 



Monard, 



Pazan lingua Perfica vocant, rufi aut alterius coloris (ego ru- 

 fum et praegrandem Goae vidi) medioeri altitudine, in cujus 

 ventriculo fit hie lapis bezar. . . . Caeterum non folum gene- 

 ratur liic lapis in Perfia, fed etiam nonnullis Malacae locis, et 

 in infula quae a Vaccis nomen fumpfit, baud procul a pro- 

 montorio Comorim. Nam cum in exercitus annonam macla- 

 rentur ijlic t/iulti praegrandes kirci, in eorum ventriculis rnavna ex 

 parte hi lapides reperti funt. Hinc factum eft, ut quotquot ab eo 

 tempore in hanc infulam appellant, hircos obtruncent, lapi- 

 defque ex iis tollant. Verum nulli Perficis bonitate compa- 

 rari poftunt. Dextri autem adeo funt Mauritani, ut facild 

 qua in regione nati fint fmguli lapides, diicerrtere et dijudi- 

 care poiiint* . . . Vocatur autem hie lapis Pazar a Paza/ij 

 id eft, hircorum Arabibus, turn Perils et Corafone incolis : 

 Nos corrupto nomine Bezar, atque Indi magis corrupti Bazar 

 appellant, quail dicas lapidem forenfem : Nam Bazar eorum 

 lingua forum eft ; Garcias ab Hortc, Aromat. Hifii iv.terprete 

 Carolo Clujh, p. 216. 



* Koempfer feems to have borrowed from Monard and 

 Garcias, the names cervi-capra, capri-cervd, and pafa/i, which 

 he has given to the oriental bezoar animal. 



f Gcneratur ifte lapis in ventriculis animaiium hirco fere 

 fimilium, arietis praegrandis magnitudine, colore rufo, uti 

 cervi propemodum agili, et acutillimi aUditus, a Perfis Pazan 

 appellato, quod variis Indiae provinces, uti in promontorio 

 Comorim, et nonnullis Malacae locis, turn etiam in Perfia et 

 Corafone, infulifque quae a Vacca cognomen adeptae funt, 

 ihvenitur: ChrtfiophcH Acofta, Aromat, libir> cop. 36. interprets 

 Carolo Che/io, p. 279. 



