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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63407	A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ...	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund.	1680 (1680)	Wing T250; ESTC R35212	152,930	194

being an excellent Remedy against the Headach for the Gravel and for those that are subject to the Griping of the Guts but then they order a little Ginger to be put into the Water when it boyls At Goa Batavia and in all the Indian Factories there are none of the Europeans who do not spend above four or five Leaves a day and they are careful to preserve the boyl'd Leaf for an Evening Sallad with Sugar Vinegar and Oyl That is accounted the best Tea which colours the Water greenest but that which makes the Water look Red is little accounted of In Japan The King and great Lords who drink Tea drink only the Flower which is much more wholsom and of a tast much more pleasing But the Price is much different for one of our ordinary Beer Glasses is there worth a French Crown The most dangeroug Distempers that befall the Tunquineses most usually happen when the bad Air surprizes the People for of a sudden it deprives them of their Speech and then Death suddenly follows without a speedy Remedy The best Remedy for this sudden Distemper is to mix some Counterpoison with Aqua Vitae instead of Wine and to let the Patient drink it as hot as he can The Patient also must at the same time be rub'd with a Cloth dip'd in Aqua Vitae where Ginger has been boyl'd This takes away the pains caus'd by cold Winds and unwholsom Airs Though some for the more speedy cure of these pains lay the Patient upon a Bed made only of Girts four Fingers distant one from the other and then setting a Chasing-dish underneath cause the sick Person to sweat in a Cloud of Frankincense till the pain is gone repeating the same thing Morning and Evening As for Blood-letting it is by no means us'd in that Country They make use of Fire especially for the Purple-Feaver a Disease so dangerous in France For the cure of this the Physitians of Tunquin take the Pith of a Reed which they dry very well dip it in Oyl and set it on Fire and then apply to every Purple Spot one of these lighted Wicks The Spot will give a whif like a small Squib and that 's an infallible sign that the Venom is gone out of the body This Remedy is seldom apply'd but in the night time because the Spot does not appear so well in the day time And the Physician must be very careful that when this Venom flies out of the Patient's Body it does not find a way into his own for then there is no Remedy but Death There are some Physicians that will prick the Purple Spot with a Needle and let out the Pestilential Blood after which they burn the part so prick'd and then rub it with Ginger not permitting their Patient to take the Air in 20 days after they are cur'd While they are under cure they drink nothing but Water with Citron-peel boyl'd in it and abstain from Flesh and Butter They give them to eat Rice boyl'd in Water and salt Fish but the more they abstain from eating and drinking the sooner they are cur'd And indeed it is a wonderful thing to see the excellent effects of their Remedies in so short a time for they have no lingring Distempers to hold them years together as they do among us CHAP. XI Of the Original Government and Policy of the Kingdom of Tunquin IT is not above six hundred years since Tunquin was first govern'd by particular Kings in regard it was anciently a part of the Dominion of the Chineses What is reported of the first Tunquineses That they were without Governours and without Kings is altogether fabulous like to that which is related of a certain Infant of three years of Age who appearing before a great Assembly of the People exhorted them to free themselves from the power of the Chineses who were their Oppressors Upon which a lovely Horse miraculously appearing to the said infant he mounted the Horse and immediately setting forward with those that were gather'd after him as also others that appear'd as wonderfully to assist him he set upon the Chineses and defeated them in such manner that they never durst venture after that to return any more to reconquer what they had lost But the most certain truth of Tunquin History assures us That for these six Centuries last past it has been govern'd by six various Families The first that assum'd the Title of King was a famous Robber whose Name was Din who having gather'd together a great Number of Malecontents and Vagabonds became so powerful and formidable through his own Valour that after several bloody Battels gain'd it was no difficult thing for him to seize upon the Throne But he did not reign long in peace for the most part of the People rebell'd against him and in the first Battel that he fought he lost his Life However his own Party won the day and having left two Sons his eldest reigned three years after whose death the younger Brother rul'd in his stead but dy'd soon after neither of the Brothers leaving any issue behind them After that the Kingdom was miserably distracted by several Civil Wars till the weaker Party calling in the Chineses to their Assistance became the most puissant Then it was that a certain Mandarin of the Family of Lelequel was advanc'd to the Throne who being a valiant and prudent Prince restor'd tranquillity to the whole Kingdom Who when he saw himself Establish'd in peace built that large Palace which they who have seen it admire as well for it's Circuit as for its magnificent Structure being all of Marble of divers Colours both within and without This King had but one Daughter who soon after her Father's death the better to secure her self marry'd one of the most powerful Mandarins in the Country of the House of Tran. But soon after one of her Subjects rebelling against her gave her battel took her Prisoner and put her to death Having thus got the Power into his hands the Rebel usurp'd the Throne but nine years after he was also slain in Battel by his own Subjects who had call'd the Chineses to their Assistance They being thus Masters of the Kingdom held it for twenty years and set Governours over every Province But at length the Mandarins grew weary of their Oppression because of the heavy Tributes which they laid upon the Tunquineses so that a valiant Captain of the House of Le having assembled a numerous Power together gave the Chineses three Battels and in every one overcame them The Chineses thus expell'd out of Tunquin the Conquerour seiz'd the Crown and in his Family the Regal Government continu'd for above fourscore years After which time a great Lord of the Family of Marr which had formerly enjoy'd the Scepter to Revenge himself of an affront which the King had put upon him at Court found a way to escape his hands and being assisted by a great Number of discontented Persons of which the best

which is made of the second is more lively then the third When they have cut the Herb they throw it into Pits which they make with Lime which becomes so hard that you would judg it to be one intire piece of Marble They are generally fourscore or a hunder'd paces in circuit and being half full of water they fill them quite up with the Herb. Then they bruise and jumble it in the water till the leaf for the stalk is worth nothing becomes like a kind of thick mud This being done they let it settle for some days and when the setling is all at the bottom and the water clear above they let out all the water When the water is all drain'd out they fill several baskets with this slime and in a plain Field you shall see several men at work every one at his own basket making up little pieces of Indigo flat at the bottom at the top sharp like an egg Though at Amadabat they make their pieces quite flat like a small cake Here you are to take particular notice that the Merchants because they would not pay custom for an unnecessary weight before they transport their Indigo out of Asia into Europe are very careful to cause it to be sifted to separate the dust from it which they sell afterwards to the Natives of the Countrey to dye their Calicuts They that sift this Indigo must be careful to keep a Linnen-cloath before their faces and that their nostrils be well-stopt leaving only two little holes for their eyes Besides they must every half hour be sure to drink milk which is a great preservative against the piercing quality of the dust Yet notwithstanding all this caution they that have sifted Indigo for nine or ten days shall spit nothing but blew for a good while together Once I laid an Egg in the morning among the sisters and when I came to break it in the evening it was all blew within As they take the Paste out of the Baskets with their Fingers dipt in Oil and make it into Lumps or Cakes they lay them in the Sun to dry Which is the reason that when the Merchants buy Indigo they burn some pieces of it to try whether there be any dust among it For the Natives who take the Paste out of the Baskets to make it into Lumps lay it in the Sand which mixes with the Paste and fouls it But when the Merchants burn it the Indigo turns to Ashes and the Sand remains The Governours do what they can to make the Natives leave their Knavery but notwithstanding all their care there will be some deceit Salt-Peter GReat store of Salt-Peter comes from Agra and Patna but the refin'd costs three times more then that which is not The Hollanders have set up a Ware-House fourteen Leagues above Patna and when their Salt-Peter is refin'd they transport it by water by Ogueli A Mein of refin'd Salt-Peter is worth seven Mamoudi's Spice CArdamom Ginger Pepper Nutmegs nutmeg-Nutmeg-Flowers Cloves and Cinnamon are all the different sorts of Spices known to us I put Cardamom and Ginger in the first place because that Cardamom grows in the Territories of Visapour and Ginger in the Dominions of the Great Mogul And as for other Spices they are brought from other Foreign parts to Surat which is the grand Mart. Cardamom is the most excellent of all other Spices but it is very scarce and in regard there is no great store in the place where it grows it is only made use of in Asia at the Tables of great Princes Five hundred pound of Cardamoms are pric'd from a hundred to a hundred and ten Rials Ginger is brought in great quantities from Amadabat where there grows more than in any other part of Asia and it is hardly to be imagin'd how much there is transported candited into Foreign parts Pepper is of two sorts There is a sort which is very small another sort much bigger both which sorts are distinguish'd into small and great Pepper The larger sort comes from the Coast of Malavare and Tuticorin and Calicut are the Cities where it is brought up Some of this Pepper comes from the Territories of the King of Visapour being vended at Rajapour a little City in that Kingdom The Hollanders that purchase it of the Malavares do not give Money for it but several sorts of Commodities in Exchange as Cotten Opium Vermilion and Quicksilver and this is the Pepper which is brought into Europe As for the little Pepper that comes from Bantam Afchen and some other parts towards the East there is none of it carried out of Asia where it is spent in vast quantities especially among the Mahumetans For there are double the Grains of small Pepper in one pound to what there are of the great Pepper besides that the great Pepper is hotter in the mouth The little Pepper that comes to Surat has been sold some years for thirteen or fourteen Mamoudi's the Mein and so much I have seen the English give for it to transport it to Ormus Balsara and the Red Sea As for the great Pepper which the Hollanders fetch from the Coast of Malavare five hundred pound in truck brings them in not above thirty-eight Reals but by the Commodities which they give in Barter they gain Cent. per Cent. The Nutmeg the Nutmeg-Flow'r the Clove and Cinnamon are the only Spices which the Hollanders have in their own hands The three first come from the Molucca Islands the fourth which is Cinnamon from the Island of Ceylan 'T is observable of the Nutmeg that the Tree which bears it is never planted which has been confirm'd to me by several persons that have liv'd several years in the Country They related to me that the Nutmeg being ripe several Birds come from the Islands toward the South and devour it whole but are forc'd to throw it up again before it be digested The Nutmeg then besmear'd with a viscous matter falling to the ground takes root and produces a Tree which would never thrive were it planted This puts me in mind of making one observation upon the Birds of Paradise These Birds being very greedy after Nutmegs come in flights to gorge themselves with the pleasing Spice at the season like Felfares in Vintage time but the strength of the Nutmeg so intoxicates them that they fall dead drunk to the Earth where the Emets in a short time eat off their Legs Hence it comes that the Birds of Paradise are said to have no Feet which is not true however for I have seen three or four that had Feet and a French Merchant sent one from Aleppo as a Present to Lewis the Thirteenth that had Feet of which the King made great account as being a very lovely Fowl But notwithstanding all the Hollanders Projects you may buy Cloves at Macassar without purchasing them of the Hollander in regard the Islanders buy them of the Dutch Captains and Soldiers which the Hollanders have in those places