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i am well informed by the Perfons that did fee it, that 
at Batavia a whole Duck was taken out of the Belly of 
a Snake and that in Achin they did kill a Snake that 
had a whole Deer in its Belly, which they took out, be- 
ing frefli and good, and that they did drefs and eat part 
of the Deer. ' 
They draw their Wire in Moulds of feveral Sizes, gra- 
dually, as we do ; whether they have any Art to make 
it more Plyant I know not. 
The Chinefes Gild Paper with Leaf-Gold and Silver, 
laid on with a very good fort of Varnilh they have, 
which is the fame wherewith they Varnifh their Lacker'd 
Wares ; all which, after it is throughly dry, they put 
in a Screw-Prefs, and with an Inftrument like our Plain, 
Shave it as fine as they Pleaft,- and fo they cut their To- 
bacco, which is as fine as a Hair. 
Amber Greece is found more or lefs in mod Parts 
great Quantities are found at Japan, and to the Eaft- 
wzxAoijava^ and at MaUiva-Iflands; which, they 
fay, they find generally faflened to the Roots of Trees 
shat grow in the Sea near the Shoar ; and that while it is 
kept under Water 'tis Soft and Pliable like Wax, and ' 
fometimes like Gelly : There is now a Piece in hcda^ 
which I have ften, that weighs above Two Thoufand 
Ounces. 
The People of Java Marry, and have Children at 
Nine and Ten Years of Age ; and geberally leave Child- 
bearing at or before Thirty. At Tunqutn there are Wo- 
men common to any that will hire them, at Eight or 
Nine Years of Age. 
The Japan and China Ydixnx^ is made of Turpen- 
tine and a curious fort of Oyl they have, which they i 
mix and boyl to a convenient Confidence, which never \ 
caufes any fwelling in the Hands or Face, @c. of thofe 
that make or work it. The Swelling that often happens 
to 
