The Spice Islands lay beyond--the Spice Islands with all their cloves and nutmegs and their countless riches must yet be won for Portugal.
Here he found a wealth of vegetation; cabbage palm was abundant, nutmegs plentiful, and a sort of sandal-wood was growing freely.
The nutmegs here are very large and good, but the natives do not care for propagating them, being afraid lest the Dutch, who monopolize the spice islands, should be induced to pay them a hostile visit.
The chief place for nutmegs is the island of Banda, which also belongs to the Dutch, being in lat.
In the city of Calicut a bahar of nutmegs is sold for 450 favi.
Nutmegs and mastic come from Meluza, which is 740 leagues from Calicut[2].
There are a number of so-called nutmegs which are derived from plants not even remotely related to Myristica.
Previous to 1200 nutmegs were quite expensive, but soon became cheaper as the plant was more and more extensively cultivated.
Penang nutmegs are of excellent quality and are always placed upon the market unlimed, but they are frequently limed subsequently in foreign ports and markets.
That is, they destroyed all nutmeg trees not under the control of the government and burned all nutmegs which could not be sold.
The tree bears fruit all the year round, so that nutmegs may be collected at all times.
Connecticut is known as the Wooden Nutmeg State because it is facetiously said that such nutmegs were manufactured there.
Banda supplies by far the most nutmegs at the present time.
This shell is now carefully broken and removed; the worm-eaten nutmegs are thrown away and the sound ones are rolled in powdered lime and again dried for several weeks.
It is stated that whole nutmegs have been adulterated with wooden imitations.
The Europeans first used nutmegsin church ceremonies as incense.
Nutmegs also contain some volatile oil, which is said to be poisonous; at least some persons are very susceptible to the effects of the volatile oil of nutmeg.
Each tree yields on an average about ten pounds of nutmegs and about one pound of mace annually.
No fires could be lighted--they were so close to the enemy's entrenchments.
They were taken by surprise and thrown into confusion.
Cease to consult; the time for action calls, War, horrid war approaches.
However, after a year, I found that the nutmegs from the Franklin had become soft.
Some years since, when a vessel was wrecked here which had nutmegs in her cargo, they were strewn all along the beach, and for a considerable time were not spoiled by the salt water.
It is true, the Chrisabolans he treated of, agree well enough with the Nutmegs in Colour and Shape.
Remembering she would need them, she had brought half a dozen of lemons and an ounce of nutmegs in with her.
It was agreed that none but Dutchmen should ever purchase the nutmegs of Banda, and that neither nation should harbour refugees from the other.
From Java they sailed to Banda; and on those volcanic islands of nutmegs and cloves made, in the name of their commonwealth, a treaty with its republican antipodes.
Aromatic nutmegs are sometimes large and sometimes small--sometimes round, sometimes oblong, and sometimes long, and this will be found the case whether cultivated or uncultivated.
The parent country of the aromatic nutmegs extends from the Molucca Islands to New Guinea, inclusive.
In the course of four or five years more, Pinang alone will more than double the present quantity of nutmegs and mace produced in the Straits, and the produce of cloves will be more than tripled.
By expression, nutmegs are made to yield a concrete oil, called Adeps Myristicæ, or sometimes erroneously oil of mace.
Nutmegs and mace are used medicinally as aromatic stimulants and condiments.
The value of the produce of nutmegswas 9,867 dollars.
I have retained eight thousand nutmegs as a plantation from which the fruit may hereafter be disseminated.
About the time the nutmegsfruited one clove tree flowered.
It is well known with what jealousy and rigour the Batavian government has guarded against the transplantation of the trees producing nutmegs and cloves from the islands of Banda and Amboina to other parts of India.
And a lot of woodennutmegs In the bargain, too, we'll throw-- Only you just fix the critter.
Who {047}sold the nutmegs made of wood--the clocks that wouldn't figure?
When shown nutmegs they intimated that they had such growing on their island.
To dream of Nutmegs is stated to be a sign of many impending changes.
All the nutmegs were sent to Europe, but one-fifth of the yearly produce was diverted by smuggling into forbidden channels, though severe punishment was inflicted upon offenders.
The best nutmegs are solid, and emit oil when pricked with a pin.
Then mix with it the juice of the lemons, a pound and a half of loaf sugar, two grated nutmegs and a quart of water.
Emperor Henry VI into Rome, the streets were described as being perfumed by the burning ofnutmegs and other fragrant plants.
It was not until the rise of the Dutch, who burned large stores of it at Amsterdam in 1790 in order to keep up a falling price, that nutmegs came into general use.
Now, it generally happened, if another bowl was wanted, that thenutmegs were missing.
It seems scarcely five minutes ago that this vast and otherwise large country sprung from chaos at the call of Columbus, and immediately commenced to produce wooden nutmegs for a foreign shore.
So back he went to Maine, straightway, A little wife he took; And now is making nutmegsat Moosehicmagunticook.
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