[372] Beledin, of the country, local; Arabic. Ramusio has not translated it.
[374] El peso del es el mayor. This may refer to the old and new weights, or it may mean that this ginger is heavier than the other ginger.
[376] Faratela, Indian weight equal to seven and a quarter pounds. Encicloped. Dict., Madrid, 1853.
[377] Atincar, Anglicè tincal, when refined, borax.
[378] Calamo aromático, also called acoro, a kind of aquatic plant used in medicine.
[379] This may be either incense or wormwood. Incenso in Ramusio.
[380] Lombriguera, southernwood, wormwood: Artemisia abrotanum.
[381] Turbith, Convolvulus turpethum; its root is used as a purgative, and it comes from India and Ceylon.
[382] Gum from the giant fennel: also called sagapeno, is known in commerce as yellowish white drops of a strong aromatic smell something like garlic; is used for diachylum.
[387] This voyage is not in Ramusio nor in the Lisbon edition, and apparently has been hitherto unpublished. The Munich MS., No. 570, gives the date 1522, but 1512 is the correct reading.
[390] Sudueste and su sudueste, these terms have not been ever used in the body of the book.
[392] Singaduras for Singladuras, Portuguese Singradura, derived by Bluteau from French Cingler, and that from the German Segelen.
[395] Or Colayres and giravales according to another reading.
[397] This passage important. Los marineros q. tomamos en borney llevaban carta de marear e trayan una aguja y piedra yman e una carta en q. trayan muchas rayas e lineas de lo qual nos espantamos mucho. See the Pillars of Hercules, by D. Urquhart with respect to the Phenician compass.
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