ABSTRACT
AND yet further on, after leaving the Island of Timor, are five Isles near one to the other, which form as it were a roadstead in which junks are moored; which enter thereinto on both sides. These Isles they call Bandam.1 Both Moors and Heathen dwell therein. And in three of them grows abundance of nutmeg and mace on certain trees like unto baytrees , whereof the fruit is the nut; over it spreads the Inace like a flower, and above that again another thick rind. One quintal of mace is worth here as much as seven of nutmeg. The abundance is such that they burn it, and it may be had almost for the asking.
