Chap. li. of the fever a! Countries of the INDIES. 813 
they are not to be compared 'with th q Eaftern or Weft-In- low Amber, and other Commodities, father than Gold or 
dim- PearF Thefe forts of Pearl do all grow in an Oifter, Silver. It grows in a Bladder oa the Belly of a certain 
like Eg^s in the Belly of a Pullet, and there are many in Creature, between the Genitals .and tne • Navel, which the 
fome, But none in many others. They fiffi in the Eaftern Seas People who fell it cut off after it is killed; It lobws jIac 
twice a Year ; the firft Time in March and April, and the clotted Blood when it is new cut off. _ None : of tlsele Crea- 
fecond Time in Auguft and September, and the Fairs are tures have above one Bladder, which is not biggerthan ait 
kept in June and November.: Before they Mi in any Place, Hen’s Egg, and will not yield above half an Ounce of 
they try before-hand whether it will turn to any Account, Mufk , and fornetimes three or four will not yie.d an 
by fending feven or eight Barks, which are to bring them Ounce. The Scent of the Beaft is fo ftrong, that it make^ 
each a thoufand of Oifters, which they open, and if the one’s Head ach to come near it. Thefe Creatures mu t 
Oifters per thoufand yield five Fanes, or above, as fome be ceiaainly very numerousy confidenngthe 'great quan- 
will yield feven, then they know the Fifhing will turn to tity of Mufk that is to be fold. ■ 
an Account. They, fifti in twelve Fathom Water ; and five 9. Bezoar comes from a Province of Gokonddj towards 
or fix Teagues off at Sea : They are guarded by fome the N. E. It is found in the Paunch of a Wila-Goat, 
fmall Men of War, to defend them from the Malabar s, to which brouzes upon a certain Shrub 1 and having eaten 
which every Diver pays eight Piafters for their Attendance, the Buds or Tops of the Boughs,' Jihe Bezoar is produced 
The more Rains fall the more profitable the Fifhery gene- by them in the Maw of the Goat, and is of diveis- 
rally happens to be. Shapes, according to the Form of the Bud. The Na- 
7. Coral, though of little Efteem in Europe, yet is tives, by feeling on the Belly of the Goat, know how nia- 
much valued in the other three Parts of the World. There ny Stones he has within him. I he Excellency of the Be~ 
are three Places where they fifli for it upon the Toaft ,of zoar is in the Bignefs, although the fmall have the Erne 
Sarditiid, viz. Arguetrel, Bd'za, and the Tfle of St. Peter. Vertue 1 with the larger; for if five or fix Stones weigh an 
On the Coaffs of AfHVfftKo they fifli for it near the Baf- Ounce, they are worth no more than feventeen or eighteen 
tion of France, and Eaharque, and on the Coaffs of Sicily, I ranks ; but if one Stone weighs an Ounce, it is worth an 
near frepdno, but the Coral is fmall, and ill-coloured. Near hundred Franks ; and one of four Ounces and an half was 
Tape de Quires, on the Coaft of Catalonia, the Coral is fold for two hundred Livres. In what Part of the Body 
large, and ofan excellent Colour, but the Branches are fhort. the Bezoar is bred, none can tell. As well in th c Eaft as 
At Majorca and Corfica there is a Fifhery for it. Thefe Weft -Indies, there are great Quantities of Bezoars that 
Places are all in the Mediterranean-Sea, for there is none breed in Cows, and of a great Bignefs, viz. feventeen or 
at all in the Main-Ocean. Some think that Coral is foft eighteen Ounces, but they are little efteemed, fix -Grains 
iii the Sea, but it is really hard ; though it is true, that in of the former working more powerfully than thirty of 
certain Months in the Year there is a milky Subftance this. 
iffues from it, and if it falls upon any thing, produces The Bezoar that breeds in Apes is fo ftrong that two 
Coral ; and there are Pertain Worms in the Sea that Grains will work as powerfully as fix Grains of Goat’s Be- 
eat it. zoar, but it is very fcarce, as being found only in the 
They fifli for Coral from the Beginning of April to the Apes of the Ifland of Macajftar. The Scarcity as well as 
End of July, but never above forty Miles from Land, Strength, makes it dear, fo that a Piece as big as a Nut 
and that im ftich fwift Barks, that no Gallies can overtake is worth a hundred Crowns. 
them. In Japan they value nothing fo much as a good The Porcupine-Stone, which is bred in the Head of 
Grain of Coral, wherewith they pull the String that fliuts that Creature, is more precious than Bezoar again!: Poifon 3 
their Purfes ; and in this they feck to excel one another ; If it be fteeped in Water a Quarter of an Flour, it makes 
fo that a Piece of Coral as. big as an Egg, fair and clean, the Water as bitter as poflible. There is another Stone ; 
without any Flaw, will produce as much as a Man can, in taken out of the Belly of the fame Creature, as good as the 
reafon, alk for it. The Portuguezs have fold fuch Pieces other ; but being fteeped in Water it lofes nothing of its 
for 20000 Crowns. All over After, and efpecially all over Weight or Bulk* as the other does, 
the Northern Parts of the Mogul’s Dominions, and all The Serpent-Stone, which is about the Bignefs of a 
along the Mountains, as you go to the Kingdoms of Afem Pidgeon’sEgg, is almoft Oval, thick in the Middle, and thin 
and Boutan, the meaner fort of' People wear it for Brace- about the Sides. The Indians fay it is bred in the Head 
lets and Necklaces. ' of certain Serpents ; but it is more probably a Compofi- 
8. Yellow Amber is only found upon the, Coaft of Pruffia tion of certain Drugs, becaufe they are to be had of the 
in the Baltick-Sea, for the Sea throws it upon the Sand, Bramins only : But, however it be, it is of excellent Vir- 
when certain Winds blow. The Eleftof of Brandenbourg tue to drive away Venom from fuch as are bitten with ve~ 
farms it out for 20, and fornetimes for 22000 Crowns a nomous Beafts ; for, being laid to the Wound, it will not 
Year ; and the Farmers keep a continual Guard on both come off till it has drawn out all the Poifon ; and being 
Sides of the Sea, that it be not ftole. It is nothing elfe fteeped in Womens or Cows Milk, it recovers its former 
but a certain Congelation made in the Sea like Gum; Virtue, making the Milk like Corruption. There is ano«. 
for fornetimes Flies and Gnats are congealed in it. In ther Stone, called the Serpent’s-Stone with the Hood, be- 
China it is a Cuftom for the great Lords, at their Feafts, caufe that kind of Serpent has an Hood hanging ddwn 
for Grandeur and Magnificence, to fet three or four diffe- behind the Head, in which this Stone is found, it is of- 
rents forts of Perfuming-Pots on the Table, and to throw ten found as big as a Pullet’s Egg ; but it is not found in 
into every one of them a vaft Quantity of Amber, and any lefs Serpent than of two Foot Length : This Stone be- 
the bigger the Pieces the more magnificent is the Enter- ing rubbed again!: another Stone, yields a Slime, which.; 
tainment accounted. This Wafte of Amber makes it the being drank in Water by the Perfon that is poifoned* 
beft Commodity that can be carried into China ; but the powerfully expels the Venom. Thefe Serpents are found 
Hollanders Lave engroffed it. ' only on the Coafts of Melinda : But the Stones are 
As for Ambergreece, no Man knows what it is, or bought of the Portugueze Mariners and Soldiers that 
where, or hew it is produced. It is moft probable that it come from Mozambique. 
muft be in the Eaftern Sea, though fome have been found ~ 10. Gold is found in the greateft Quantities in the 
on the Coafts of England , and other Nations of Europe : Elands of Japan , which He Eaftward of China ; though 
The greateft Quantity of it is found upon the Coaft of fome think it’s brought from -Forniofa thither. The Chi- 
Melinda , at the Mouth of the Rio de Sena. A Por- nefe alfo exchange a fort of Gold, produced in their Coun-- 
tugueze Failing from Goa to Manillas, after he had paffed try, for Silver, Weight for Weight, becaufe, they hav- 
the Streights of Malacca, found a Piece of thirty-three ing no Silver-Mines, prefer it before Gold, but it is the 
Pound Weight, and a Middleburgher a Piece of forty-two coarfeft of all the Gold. In A pi a, in the Ifland of Celebes^ 
Pound upon the Coaft of the Ifland of St. Maurice. or Mac afar, there is found Gold among the Sand of their 
The beft fort, and greateft Quantity of Mufk, comes Rivers. In Achkn., or- Sumatra, - after the rainy Seafoiv 
from the Kingdom of Boutan ; and from thence it is when, the . Torrents -are. wafted, they find Flints walked 
brought ta Patna, the chief City of Bengal, where the - down from’.' 'the- Mountains with Veins of Gold in them ? 
Natives truck it away with the Merchants for Coral, Yel- and the Inhabitants of the Weft-fide of the’ Erne 
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