'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.' [‎155] (482/1024)

Travel; in India*
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There is the Serpent-Stone not to be forgot, about the bigneffc of a donblti
and fome are almoft oval,thick in the middle, and thin about the fides. The In
dians report that it is bred in the head of certain Serpents. But I rather take it
to be a Story of the Idoloter’s Priells, and that the Stone is rather a compolition
of certain Drugs. Whatever it be, it is of excellent vertue to drive any venom
out of thofe that are bit by venomous creatures. If the perfon bit be not much
wounded,the place multbe incis’d j and the Stone being appli’d thereto, will not
fall off till it has drawn all the poifon to it. To cleanfe it, you mult fteep it ill
Womans'milk 5 or for want of that,in Cows-milk; after the Stone has lain ten of
twelve hours, the milk will turn to the colour of an Apoftemated matter. The
Arch-Bilhop of Goa carrying me to his Cabinet of Rarities, Ihew’d me one of
thefe Stones •• and after he had alfur’d me of the rare qualities it had, gave it
me. Once as he crofs’d a Merfh in the Ifland of Salfete where Goa ftands, one of
the men that carr’d his ^%w,beinghalfnaked,was bit by a Serpent, and heal’d
at the fame time. I bought feveral} but there are none but the Bramints that
fell them, which makes me believe that they compound them. There are two
ways to try whether the Serpent-Stone be true or falfe. The firft is, by putting
the Stone in your mouth, for then it will give a leap, aud fix to the Palate. The
other is, by putting it in a glafs full of water \ for if the Stone be true, the wa
ter will fall a boyling, and rife in little bubbles up to the top of the Glafs.
There is another Stone,which is Call’d the Stephen’s-Stone with the hood.This
is a kind of Serpent that has sdkind of a hood hanging down behind the head,as
it is reprefented in the Figure. And it is behind this hood that the Stone is found,
many .times as big as PulletVegg. There are fome Serpents’ both in Afia, and
America of a monflxous bignefs, 25 foot long} as was that, the skin whereof is
kept in Batavia, which had fwallow’d a Maid of 18 years of age. * Thefe Stones
are not fobnd in any of thofe Serpents that are not at leaft two foot long. This
Stone being rubb’d againil another Stone , yields another dime , which be
ing drank in water by the perfon that has the poifon in his bddy,powerfuly drives
it out. Thefe Serpents are no-where to be found but upon the Coafts of Melinde j
but for the Stones you may buy them of the BortHgne^e Mariners and Souldiers
that come from Mozambique.