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As for checkes or reuilings, was to them muske and honie, and slouenly vndaftinesse, a great comelinesse.
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And they come to buy muske, cambals, agats, silke, pepper and saffron like the saffron of
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Here they haue much silke and muske, and cloth made of cotton.
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The towne hath three great market places, wherein dayly there is markets holden, where you may buy all kindes of wares, and where there commeth a great number of people, very strange to beholde: Within the towne there is a great church or muske of wood, wherein they obserue the law of Mahomet: Gentlemen and men of any qualitie haue their owne muskes in their houses.
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Hither to Iamahey come many marchants out of China, and bring great store of muske, golde, siluer, and many other things of China worke.
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There is also another weight which they call Marco, which is eight ounces or halfe a rotilo of Goa, and 9 ounces of Venice sotile: with this they weigh amber, corall, muske, ambracan, ciuet, and other fine wares.
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Miniuer, Beuer, Wuluerins, the skin of a great water Rat that smelleth naturally like muske, [These rats are in Canada.]
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When the Portugals go from Macao in China to Iapan, they carry much white silke, golde, muske, and porcelanes: and they bring from thence nothing but siluer.
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The muske commeth out of Tartarie, and is made after this order, by report of the marchants which bring it to Pegu to sell; In
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Tartarie there is a little beast like vnto a yong roe, which they take in snares, and beat him to death with the blood: after that they cut out the bones, and beat the flesh with the blood very small, and fill the skin with it: and hereof commeth the muske.
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