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As for their Learning and Knowledge it is hntlitth^ 
t&I^^Mve^'iiifeetf ' ftv^^ '"%it'in ' diverfe 'Lan- 
guages, but tJiey conr dri nothing but a great deal of 
ftuflF and cant about their Worlhips, Rites and Cere- 
monies. 
They are ignorant of all parts of theWorld but their 
own ^ they wonder much at us, that will take fo much 
care and pains, and run thro fo many dangers both by 
Sea and Land, oolyj as they fay, to uphold and nourifti 
Pride and Luxury^ For, fay they, every Country in 
the whole v/orld is fufficiently endowed by Nature with 
every thing that is neceifary for the life of Man, and 
that therefore it is madnefs to feek for, or defire, that 
which, is lieedlefs and unneceSary . 
The laft time that I was at Modufferpore in Indoflan., 
I had a great deal of talk with a Bramme fomewhat 
more learned than any of the reft, his name was Ram- 
nauntt^ he told me a great many Secrets in Phyfick, and 
told me many Traditions and StofieSj. ' He fays, that if 
you bury a piece of Money for fome tonfiderable time 
in the mouth of a live Frog, and then dig it up again 
at midnight,that this piece of Money, to whomfoever 
you give or pay it, will always return to you again* 
He faySjthat if the little Worm in the Wood X//4^r^^er^ 
be cut in two, and the one part ftirs and the other not^ 
if the ftirring part be bruifed, and given with half a 
Beetle to a Man, the other half to a Woman, this 
Charm will keep them from ever lying abfent one from 
the other. 
They have Books full of the like abfurdities, and 
Cabaliftick Complication of Figures 5 as for example, if 
you write thefe following Numbers, a8, 35, 2, 7.^ ^ 
C 3. 32,51—34, 29, 8, I,— 4, 5,30,33- inthefquares 
of a fquare figure, and your Enemies name under it, 
and wear it always about you, your Enemy fliall never 
be able to hurt you. 
A a aa So 
