Maritim & Ventornm . c. 15. And what other particulars are ob 
fervable upon allthofe Coafts , concerning the Tydes ? 
10. Whether there be any Difcoveries newer , than the newel! 
printed Maps, of the parts of the World Nortb-eafl of ^apanC 
And whether $ apart be truly an Iflaftd , or no ? 
11. What is the true way of making and colouring China- 
Dijlres ^ and how in China and fapan , they make the Black-ver - 
ni'/J) ? 
12. With vvhat Materials and how they paint both upon 
Cloths, commonly call’d Pintado s y and likewife upon Canvas,^ ? 
13. Whether the Lignum Aloes be the Wood , or Root of a 
Tree ? In what Countrey it is found ? And how to know the belt 
of the kind ? • 
14. Whether the bell Tea be that, which comes forth at the 
firlt of the Spring, and are the Top- leaves, ? In what manner 'tis 
dried •, and whether the too hafty drying thereof hurts it ? 
15. Whether there grows a Wood in gfava, that naturally 
fmells like humane Excrement ? And if fo , what kind of ground 
it grows in? 
1 6. Whether in the M cheque Iilands there be a Red Wood, 
which burns , fparkles , and flames , without being confumed 5 
yet may be reduced to powder, by rubbing between ones fin- 
gers ? 
27. Whether near the Fort of Termite there be a Plant , call’d 
by the- Inhabitants Catopa , whence fall little Leaves, which are 
turned into Butter-flies ? 
18. Whether in Pegu , and other places of the Eap-Indies , they 
ufe apoyfon, that kills by fmellingj and yet the poifonous fmell 
is hardly iperceived? 
19. Whether it be true , that the onely Antidote hitherto 
known , againft the famous and fatal Macafjjk £-po|fon , is humane 
ordure ? taken inwardly ? And what fubftance that poyfon is made 
of.? . • 
20. Whether therebefuch a Vegetable call’d Mam 
gas bravos , that is fo poifonous , that it kills prefently ? and for 
which no remedy hath been yet found ? 
21. W here the befl: Cal and? a- wood , or Palo d’ Aquila , grows ? 
Wheth'erthe Palo d' Aquila be much inferiour to Calamba^ and 
I i i how 
