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courage than ooe would imagine, and that they prcfently fall on^^ 
and defift according to the^ord giveoj embracing one another 
moft lovingly with iheir truncks^ as foon as they are commanded 
to end the combat 5 ^. 21. 
5. That at G^?^^, lying in 16 deg» Northern Latitude upon an 
Ifle, the CHmatis very unwholelome, and lubjed: to great mor- 
tality 5 though a place icituate for great Trade, which it manages 
withP^^?^, Siam^ Japan^ Ferjia^ Cambaja^ Arabia, Malabar^ CQ' 
rommdel^ Bengala^ Achem^ &c. p,79^ 
4. That oa the Coaft of Malabar the nights arc very cold^ and 
that there falls a great dew, cfpeciaily in the months of Jaftuarjf^ 
Febr. and Marcb^^hich is followed by intolerable heats in the day^ 
as alfo, that the Land brifes begin in the morning about 9 and 10 
a dockland the Sea^brifes foon after Sun-^fettiog- The Produd:!- 
ons of that Country are chiefly Pepper^ ( which is of three forts, 
black, whitifti, and long,) Aloe^ Cardemom, Ginger^ fome Salt-^ 
peter and Gumme4ac\; as alfo Be'^oar-fiones^ which are beft at C^* 
nanor J likcwdc Mirabolans^ Tam^rines : That Pepper grows beft 
in Ihadowy places 5 hath a weak ftem5to be fupported like Vines, 
haviog 00 each branch commonly fix clufters, each a foot long, 
in colour like unripe grapes* that they gather it, being green, in 
OBober mdi November^ expofing it to the Son to dryj whereby it 
grows black in a few days ; 99 IOC, 501. 
5. That at Cmanor there are fomerimes found Be^oar-jlenes, of 
the bignefs not only of a Pigeons- Egg, (which may be had for fiz 
or (even reals,) but alfo of that of a Hens egg^for 12 reals a piece; 
100. 
6«That the way^there ufedjto difcero a true Bei^oar from a falfe 
one, is^ekher by preffing npon it a red«hot: iron-bodkio^wheoce. 
it will receive no harra^ if genuine ; or by weighing it, and then 
letting it lye in water a whole nighr* whereupon^if it keep its for^^ 
mer weight 'tis a true one j if oor, \ls couoterfait ^ ibid^ 
7. That at Cockin, the Capital of ooe of the Kingdoms of n^a^ 
/^WjtheTempeftuouv wiods.,there teigoiogiothe wiotersmooth?^ 
drive together abundance of clouds againft the raountaios^where 
having hung a whilc^ they fall down at lafi with a fudden impetu* 
ofity in dreadful fhowers, carrying along with them ftore of earth 
and fands into the Sea, which are f3y the iame^with certain winds^ 
driven , back sgaia^ and do obftruft the mouth of the R.rver ^/f t h^g^ 
place i which yet is dif-obftr.ucScd again in the Som. ' 
