162 OF ABDULLA CKAUN GOVERNOUR THEREOF [REL. XI

and frighted her, that shee fell into a feaver and in fewe
dayes dyed.

Chua is a rich perfume, made liquid, of Colour black1,
which comonly they put under their Armepitts and there-
abouts, and many tymes over bosome and backe.

1 Here is a marginal note—"Chua worth 18 and 20 rupees an
ounce ordinarily." Chawwa, chanwil, chowA and choa are common
commercial names for a fragrant ointment or paste, made up of four
ingredients, usually sandalwood, wood of aloes, saffron and musk, or
of ambergris, saffron, musk and the juice of flowers of the arbor
tristis. But Mundy evidently refers to the liquid and extravagantly
expensive perfume distilled direct from wood of aloes (agalloclium)
by a process described in the Aiti Akbarl (tr. Blochmann, 1. 81) and
there called diuwah. At the end of the description there is the quaint
remark, " Some avaricious dealers mix sandalwood and almonds with
it, trying thereby to cheat the people."