[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 106.2 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 106.2 Travels in India (Ball) 106.2 - **Language:** English ### [106.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.2) Other peasants, when they have cut the bladder and have drawn as much musk as they can without its appearing to be too much, put in its place small pieces of lead to make it heavier. The merchants who buy it and transport it into foreign countries prefer this fraud to the other, because it does not generate these little worms. But the fraud is still more difficult to be discovered when they make small purses of the skin of the animal’s stomach, which they sew up with threads of the same skin, so as to resemble the true bladders ; these purses are filled with what has been removed from the good bladders, together with the fraudulent mixture which is added to it, so that it is difficult for the merchants to discover anything. It is true that if they bind the bladder directly they cut it, without letting the air get to it, and without giving time to the odour to lose some of its strength by evaporation (while they take out what they want to remove), if this bladder should be held to the nose of any one, blood would immediately issue from it in consequence of the pungency of the odour, which for this reason must be tempered to render it agreeable and prevent it from injuring the brain. - [Previous: 106.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.1) - [Next: 106.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.3) - [Up: 106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.2) · Pramāṇa