Multitudes of such like ridiculous Fancies they have; all which they seem to have borrowed from the _Cabala_ of the _Saracens_, which is full of such like. I lately heard a _Bramine_ say, that if some of the pieces or knots of the Cloath (in which a Woman hath been burned with her Husband) be saved, and made up in the form of a Wick, and fitted for a Lamp, and lighted, and set in a dead Womans Skull, that it would make the dead Party appear. This he said he had done, but I did not believe him. When they have any mad Men among them, they take them and put them into a close Room, just big enough to hold them, and almost Smoke them to Death with Musk and cold Smells, which soon brings their Brains into their right temperature, and so recover them, _&c._ There happen'd two things in our Voyage hither which I thought very observable tho' perhaps they may not be unknown to you--The first was, that all our Tornadoes brought much Rain with a stink; and if the Seamen did but lay their Cloaths by for 24 Hours, they became all full of little Maggots. The second is, When we came out of _Europe_ we took in some Water at St. _Jago_'s, and when we were almost at our Journeys end, our Cooper going with a Candle to open one of the Casks, he had no sooner done it, but the Water immediatly took Fire, and burnt his Face, Hands and Fingers; but he suddenly turning about quench'd the same, by setting his Britch on it. It stunk pretty much also at the same time, but afterwards came to its native Sweetness, _&c._ _I am yours_, &c. Jo. Marshal. _Part of two Letters to the Publisher from Mr. _James Cunningham_, F.R.S. and Physician to the _English_ at _Chusan_ in _China_, giving an account of his Voyage thither, of the Island of _Chusan_, of the several sorts of Tea, of the Fishing, Agriculture of the _Chinese_, _&c._ with several Observations not hitherto taken notice of._ _SIR_,