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 pieces of strong iron sticking out; and in the left pocket another engine of the same kind. In a smaller pocket of the right hand several pieces of white and red metal, of different sizes; some of the white ones were so heavy that we could hardly lift them. In the left pocket were two strange engines, gith one of which he told us he shaved himself and that with the other he cut his victaals. There were two other smaller pockets from one of which he took a large globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; this he put close to our ears and we were surprized with a noise as loud as the fall of a water-mill; this engine, he called his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time of every action of his life; we therefore presume it is the god that he worships From the left pocket, he took out a net, large enough for a, fisherman; in this were several pieces of yellow metal, which if they be real gold, are of more value thon all the wealth in your Majesty’s coffers.

Round his waist was a belt made of the skin of some unknown animal, from which hung a sword the length of nine