'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎153] (480/1024)

CHAP. xxir.
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Of Musk and Bezoar; andjome other Medicinal Stones.
T f ° r f ,and C u e grea 5 eft < 3 uantit y of Ml >sk, comes from the Kinsdom
1 of Bom an, from -whence they bring it to iW the chief CirvnfVL 8 /
to truck it away for other Commodities All the Musk that is fold in
fro® thence. And the Musk-Merchants had rather deal with von fAr p 7 * C ? me ?
Yellow-Amber, than for Gold or Silver - in retard rh P 1^1 • 5 f ° r Coral and
among the Natives where they live. I w’as fo curious^ts to btfreThltl" 6 f 66 ”
to Paris, of which I caus’d the figure to be cut S th * Skln of one
After they have kill’d the creature, they cut off the hladfW i-W rr*. j
the belly as big as an egg, nearer to the genital parts than to the navif Th S er
h H 0Ut U/h MUS ! C that - iS in the bladder ’ Which at time looks likJ clotted 7
blood. When the natives would adulterate their Musk thev ui 0t ji
with the liver and blood of the Animal flicM toTetW aftr ^h^n he , bladder
as much of the right Musk as they think convenfent. This mixtui f fn ^
fothnrT Ume Pr ° duCesCertain Animals ln the bladder that eat the "ood Musk 1
fo that when you come to open it,there is a great waft Others To “c 7
have cut off the bladder, and taken out as much ofThe Musk as’thaSe d ^
may not be too palpable, fill up the Veflel with little ftone 7 to make ft wrfX
The Merchants are lefs difpleas'd at this deceit than the former nT C r S h
they do not find the Musk to be eaten But the deceits harder foLd^ 0 " ^
when they make little Purfes of the skin of the belly of the Beaft which fh d ’
fovv up with firings of the fame skin, which are like the true bladders • nnd
fill thofe Purfes with what they have taken out of the dght b adders
other fraudulent mixture which they defign to Out amonf ir t. s > and
fhould they tye up the bladder as foon a^hey c^t k off w^houtlfr,^ l>, - hat
out of?h l0fe r S r f0r i ce ’ the ftren 8 th of the perfume would caufe the blood to aufh
out of the nofe/o that it rauft be qualifi’d to render it accentaheor r^herf?
hurtful to the brain. The feent of'the Beaft which I carrf d to ’p! ^
firong,that I could not keep it in my Chamber; for it made all peonies hcadsaS
frat came neer it. At length my Servants laid it in a Garret and ent off ^
bladder,and yen the feent remain’d very ftrong This rreafnrp’i'c f
in depTfcc Km- in ^ 1 ni s creature is not to be found
ver’d wfhrn a d( ^ there a . re vaft numbers, the Countrey being all over co-
N^L 1 fi . then,f ?y es with Corn and new Rice. And then itis thtr rho
Natives lay gins and fnares for them to catch them as thev so baric • iwlpf
si
"^lle Ki'nff Wh f 3 • WOrld ° f Musk i^boughtup? ^ Wl11 n0t ^
fpoil the Musk Trade” ord^d ^ the Ch ? tS and adul terations of Musk would
that they EKe Jo« n ? ne BM ^ rS , lhoald be r °w’d up,but
U P with his Seal. Yet notwfthftandinVTlfrlf C ler P> a ^ e ^ due jnfpeflion, be feal’d
will fometimes cnnnino-Go^ 1 g , the warmefs and care of the King,they
the weight. In one Vovaef to p h ® m>a , n l d pu ^ ln llttle P leces of Lead to augment
ounces and an half- and of 1 bou g h l t 7<573 bladders,that weigh’dassy
Bevoar romf r 7 and 4^2 ounces out of the bladder. 557
eaft. i t j s found Tmono- ° 7 tbe ^* n S dom °f Gokonda toward the North-
upon a certaM TreHw 8 t C 0rdare ln i he P a »nch of a wild-Goat that browzes
men, and the tops of the boughs, the Bezoar engenders in