which is a Root coming out of Chm.znd by our Author M3 to 
be a kind ofRhubarb,an excellent Prefervative of health.Tbis 
root they let boyl for feveral days in water, according to the 
dbfeprefcribed by the Phyfician-E.^.the firft day they put one 
ounce of it in three pints of water, increafing the dofe of the 
Root every day unto the twelfth, and thence to the twentieth 
day* This drink is faid to be very agreeable to the tafte, and 
of the colour of our pale wines* Whtlft they are drinking this 
decodtion,they niufteat nothing but a little breadjand aroafted 
Chicken without Salt ; and after chey have done drinking, they 
muft forbear eating Fruit a whole month. When this Drink is 
taken, the perfon that hath taken it inufl: be very well covered 
tofweat; of which fweat, which is copious, his linnenbe- 
cotnesall yellow, and even all the walls of his Chamber. This 
Rooteafily fpoils, and whilft 'tis good, the Author faith a 
pound of it cofts an hundred Crowns, 
7. That all the Women of the Turkifli Seraglio are frequently 
chawing Maftic, as that which fakes away the impurity of the 
Teeth, and keeps them clean and white, 
8. That when the JVogdies^ a fort of Tarrars, have received 
any wound, they ufe no other pyntmentbut fome boiled flelh, 
applied hot to the wound. And when the wound is deep, they 
thruft in a piece of fat as hot as the Patient can endure it : And 
for this purpofe they count the flefli and fac of Horfes beft of 
alU 
9. Thofetnat are troubled with the Colick, are ordered to 
eat Horfe-fleflh ; which they fay cures many. 
10. That 'tis very true, that near the Ifle of JB^^^r^/^ they 
fetch fweet water from the bottom of the Seas and that abouc 
Cape Comoro and along the coaft of Qromandel and Malabar , 
where no fweet water is, the people come with their veflels ac 
the time of Low- water as near to the Sea as they can ^ digging 
about two foot in the Sand, where they meet with fweet water 
good to drink. 
1 1. That Camels bear their young ones Eleven months, and 
can be without drink many days, even to nine, and that the big- 
ger fort of themare able to carry a 1000, yea 1500 pound 
weight. That their Milk is a foveraign remedy againft the 
Dropfie. 
I z. That the Cows about B4/j2pri,having no grafs to feed on, 
5A 2 are 
