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isalfoof the Shells and other fubftances which there pafs 
for niony. i i i l 
2. Tbat in ttefoad fr©tii Suratte to y/gr^ , by the way of 
Brmfmr ^iad Serofjge ^ there is a Village, called NAvafours^ 
where the Rice, which is lefs than other rice, acquires the fccnt 
of Musk by boy ling. 
3. That there are to be met withjadmirable Juglers and Moun- 
tebanks in the road frdnv SWr*i//^ to Agra by the way of Amd- 
davat i by force of whom the Author affirms he faw done what 
follows : They kindled a great fire, and in it heated fome Iron- 
chains red-hot, which they laid about their bodies, without re- 
ceiving any apparent hurt thereby. They took alfo a little 
piece of wood,and having fix't it in the Earth, th^y demanded 
of the Spcftators, what kind of fruit they would have grow 
upon it : It beinganfwered, , oneof the Juglers crew 
eover'd himfelf with a Linnen cloth, and ftoop d downtothe 
ground five or fix times. At which time one of the Spe6ators 
having placed himfelf fo that he could obfer\e what that Jugler 
did,faw,that witha Razor he cut his flefh under his arm-pits, 
and with the blood thence ifTuing 5 rubbed the faid piece of 
wood. Whereupon every tiiiie that he raifed himfelf from 
ftoopiflg^-t^^ planted ftick of wood was vifibly grown \ and 
2tt his ihurd jifuigjbranches came forth w ith buds ; at the fourth, 
theXree was covered with leavesiandat the fifth,bloflbms were 
feenupon it. But then a Minifter of the E^glifit Prefident being 
one of the By ftanders, when he law, that out of a piece of dry 
wood,thofe Juglers did in fefs than half an hour make grow up 
a Tree of foiiro^r five foot high, with leaves and bloffoms, was 
by his f eal ^fried to flop the progrcfs,and openly to declare, 
that be vvpuid never give the H.CommunioB to any one of ihofe 
that Cbould ftay any longer there to fee more of fuch (hy him 
reputed Magical)things.Whichfpoiied the Juglers proceedings, 
and iiiade the faid Pref^ent difiuifs both the Company, and the 
Juglprs to^iher.* , . , • - - t 
mAmadavAt^ the wife pf a YichBammhe\v\g\>dXXtri^ 
aodyetextreamly defirous of children , was told by a dome- 
llickytbat if fhe would tat of a certain kind of living creature, 
flje wpuldaiSiiredly.be wKhcbild; and that that creature was 
npthii?gba.E a^e|rtaifl Uttje piQj;, o which (he fliouldeat but 
tlxifeeorfour. Nowj t-iie religion of the JB^;?w/;j not permitting 
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