Note 146 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 2)
Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation
This word is very clearly enyertan, which is an old word meaning to freeze, to congeal, to make yerto—hard: so that this stone would be like the Chinese soap stone, which is soft and easily carved when first extracted. Ensartan would apply, meaning to string beads, but the writing does not admit of it.