154 $efo;(£tt(jlattfrs Earttirs. 
Sables, their Teeth are worth eight Groats the Pound; the 
belt Ivory being Sold but for half the Money. 1 
For Poyfon. 
It is very good againft Poyfon. 
For the Cramp. 
As alfo for the Cramp, made into Rings. 
For the Piles. * 
And a fecret for the Piles, if a wife Man have the order- 
ing of it. 
The Manaty, a Fifh as big as a Wine pipe, moft excel- 
lent Meat; bred in the Rivers of Hifpaniola in the Weft 
Indies', it hath Teats, and nourifheth its young' ones with 
Milk; it is of a green Colour, and tafteth like Veal. 
[98] For the Stone Collick. 
There is a Stone taken out of the Head that is rare for 
the Stone and Collect. 
1 "Numerous about the Isle of Sables; i.e., the Sandy Isle." — Voyages, p. 
106. "Mr. Graves " (year 1635) " in the 'James,' and Mr. Hodges in the ' Re- 
becka,' set sail for the Isle of Sable for sea-horse, which are there in great num- 
ber," &c. — Winthrofs N. E., by Savage, vol. i. p. 162. And I cite one other 
mention of this pursuit: "Eastward is the Isle of Sables; whither one John 
Webb, alias Evered (an active man), with his company, are gone, with commis- 
sion from the Bay to get sea-horse teeth and oyle." — Lcchford's Newes from 
Nevj England (1642), Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. iii. 3d series, p. 100. The Magda- 
len Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, are the most southern habitat of the 
animal spoken of by Godman. — Amer. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 249. 
