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So if you write the following figures in the like mairr 
ner upon the Left hand, 2, 9, 2, 7 — 6, 9, 6, 5, — 8,3^ 
8, 4,5,4,7- — v/ith Turmeric, and walli the 
fame off with fair Water of Ganges, and drink it, it 
will cure all manner of Venemous Bitings. 
Multitudes of fuch like ridiculous fancies they have ^ 
all which they feem to have borrowed from the Cahda 
of the Saracem, which is full of fuch like. 
I lately heard a Bramim fay, that if fome of the 
Pieces or knots of the Cloath (in ^which a Woman 
hath been burned with her Husband ) be faved, and 
made-uf Tn the form of a Wick, and fitted for a Lamp, 
and lighted, and fet in a dead Womans Skull, that it 
would make the dead party appear. This he faid he 
had done, but I did not believe him. 
When they Have any mad men amongft them, they 
take them and put them into a clofe Room, juft big 
enough to hold them, and^almoft fmoke them to death 
with Musk and cold Smells, which foon brings their 
brains into their right temperature, and fo recovers 
them, &c. 
Tliere happened two things in our Voyage hither 
which I thought very obfervable, tho perhaps they^ 
may not be unknown to you — The firft was, that all 
our Tornadoes brought much Rain with a ftink ^ and 
if the Sea-men did but lay their Cloaths by for 24 
hours, they became all full of little Maggots. The fe- 
cond is. When we came out of Europe we took in fome 
Water at St JagQs^ and when we were almoft at our 
Journeys end, our Cooper going with a Gandle to open 
one of the Casks, he had no fooner done it , but 
the Water immediately took fire, and burnt his 
Face, Hands and Fingers^ but he fuddenly turning 
about quench'd the fame, by fetting his Britch on it. It 
flunk pretty much alfo at the fame time, but afterwards 
came to its native fweetnefs, &c. Im yours, 8cc. 
Jo. Marihal 
