vomit. They do not drink ice-cold drinks nor artificial hot
drinks, as the Chinese do; for they are not without aid against
the humors of the body, on account of the help they get from
the natural heat of the water; but they strengthen it with
crushed garlic, with vinegar, with wild thyme, with mint, and
with basil, in the summer or in time of special heaviness. They
know also a secret for renovating life after about the seventieth
year, and for ridding it of affliction, and this they do by a pleas-
ing and indeed wonderful art.


G.M. Thus far you have said nothing concerning their sci-
ences and magistrates.


Capt. Undoubtedly I have But since you are so curious
I will add more. Both when it is new moon and full moon they
call a council after a sacrifice. To this all from twenty years
upward are admitted, and each one is asked separately to say
what is wanting in the State, and which of the magistrates have
discharged their duties rightly and which wrongly. Then
after eight days all the magistrates assemble, to wit, Hoh first,
and with him Power, Wisdom, and Love. Each one of the
three last has three magistrates under him, making in all thir-
teen, and they consider the affairs of the arts pertaining to each
one of them: Power, of war; Wisdom, of the sciences; Love,
of food, clothing, education, and breeding. The masters of all
the bands, who are captains of tens, of fifties, of hundreds, also
assemble, the women first and then the men. They argue about
those things which are for the welfare of the State, and they