Note 37 — Chapter XVIII · GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS

“A quantity of pearls amounting to six or seven arrobes.” Biedma, in Historical Collections of Louisiana, part II, p. 101. “In her eares bracelets of pearls hanging down to her middle.” Voyages of English Nation to America, in Hakluyt, II, p. 286. In same, p. 304, it is said, “not only his own skinnes that hee weareth, and the better sort of his gentlemen and followers are full set with the sayd Pearle, but also his beds, and houses are garnished with them, and that hee hath such quantitie of them, that it is a wonder to see.” “Bracelets of real pearls; but they pierce them when hot and thus spoil them.” Membré, loc. cit., p. 183. Cf. Shea, Early Voyages, p. 86, and in same, p. 140, Father Gravier says, “the chief’s wife had some small pearls ... but about seven or eight which are as large as small peas.” Cf. Captain Smith, loc. cit., pp. 138, 144, 191, etc.; Strachey, pp. 54, 132; Tonti, loc. cit., p. 62.