( 3^90 ) 
8* That moft of the Inhabitants of Porca in the Country of 
Malahar have (wollen Legs 5 afcribed to the brackifli and Salt- 
petry water,they muft drink there 5 /^»149» 
9^ That the N^i/ro/, (the Gentry of A/^i/fi^^^r, and the Military 
men there) are from their youth, even from the feventh year of 
their age, difcipho'd to great agility of Body, by ftretching their 
tender finews^and anointing them with certain oyls and unguents, 
whereby they are difpofed to wind and turn their body with extra* 
ordinary nimblenefs any way^and to wreftle to admiration ; p. 1 44, 
lo* That about Tutetoryn^ in Malabar, \% one of the three chief 
Pearl-fifliings in the Eaft-Indies, comprizing Manaar and Aripou^ 
fcituate between Comorin and Ceilon • the other two places for 
taking that rich commodity being Ormusin Perjia^zud Ainamow 
the coaft oiChina, Furtherj that the Pearl-bearing Oyftcrs arc 
hard and tough, and not good to eat : That they muft be dived 
for, 75859, 1O5 fathoms deep 5 /^^^ all years do not equally yield 
Pearls, in regard that fometimcs the Pearl-banks are cover'd with 
. fand, and lometimes the Oyfters are too fmall ; that the Pearls of 
Tutecoryn and Adanaar are inferior in goodnefs to thofe of Ormufy 
thofe being neither fo white nor bright as thefe • i^r. 
11. That siiTutecoryn, lying nc^t Ccmorytij there is aquitediffe? 
rent feafon from the places Icituate clofe to the North of that 
Cape 5 iSnce, whereas from April to September it is Summer on the 
South of that Cape,\\% then Winter on the North of the farae^there 
blowing then ftrong winds on the one fide of thofe mountaiu5,and 
none on the other* The like of which is found upon feveral o- 
ther coafts of the Indies ^ as alfo in forae places of Africa^ 
p, 152» 
12. That the beftftained clothes are made about /^<i/f^/>o«r, to 
which a peculiar kind of water, fpringing there, is thought to be 
very conducive ; /♦159. 
13* That between Pcww^ and C^/^/i^rf, North olPalecatta^ on 
the coaft of Coromandel^ there grows the ht^EJJaye-^ which is a 
fmall roots ufed in ftaining Indian Clothes with fixt colours. And 
that, todifcernthebeftof the kind, it muft be broken, and ob- 
lerved. whether it be of a deep red ; bcfides, it is to be chawed, 
and, if found of a Nitrous tafte, 'tis efteemed good. And to ex- 
umine the fincerity of that colour, when the cloth is already ftained 
with it, thcyrubithard with the Juice of LimoD, and fo let it dry 
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