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He
had
the
mysterious
juruparis
of
the
Rio
Negro
Indians
,
that
women
are
not
allowed
to
look
at
,
and
that
even
youths
may
not
see
till
they
have
been
subjected
to
fasting
and
scourging
,
and
the
earthen
jars
of
the
Peruvians
that
have
the
shrill
cries
of
birds
,
and
flutes
of
human
bones
such
as
Alfonso
de
Ovalle
heard
in
Chili
,
and
the
sonorous
green
jaspers
that
are
found
near
Cuzco
and
give
forth
a
note
of
singular
sweetness
.
He
had
painted
gourds
filled
with
pebbles
that
rattled
when
they
were
shaken
;
the
long
clarin
of
the
Mexicans
,
into
which
the
performer
does
not
blow
,
but
through
which
he
inhales
the
air
;
the
harsh
ture
of
the
Amazon
tribes
,
that
is
sounded
by
the
sentinels
who
sit
all
day
long
in
high
trees
,
and
can
be
heard
,
it
is
said
,
at
a
distance
of
three
leagues
;
the
teponaztli
,
that
has
two
vibrating
tongues
of
wood
,
and
is
beaten
with
sticks
that
are
smeared
with
an
elastic
gum
obtained
from
the
milky
juice
of
plants
;
the
yotl-bells
of
the
Aztecs
,
that
are
hung
in
clusters
like
grapes
;
and
a
huge
cylindrical
drum
,
covered
with
the
skins
of
great
serpents
,
like
the
one
that
Bernal
Diaz
saw
when
he
went
with
Cortes
into
the
Mexican
temple
,
and
of
whose
doleful
sound
he
has
left
us
so
vivid
a
description
.
The
fantastic
character
of
these
instruments
fascinated
him
,
and
he
felt
a
curious
delight
in
the
thought
that
Art
,
like
Nature
,
has
her
monsters
,
things
of
bestial
shape
and
with
hideous
voices
.
Yet
,
after
some
time
,
he
wearied
of
them
,
and
would
sit
in
his
box
at
the
Opera
,
either
alone
or
with
Lord
Henry
,
listening
in
rapt
pleasure
to
"
Tannhäuser
,
"
and
seeing
in
the
prelude
to
that
great
work
of
art
a
presentation
of
the
tragedy
of
his
own
soul
.
On
one
occasion
he
took
up
the
study
of
jewels
,
and
appeared
at
a
costume
ball
as
Anne
de
Joyeuse
,
Admiral
of
France
,
in
a
dress
covered
with
five
hundred
and
sixty
pearls
.
This
taste
enthralled
him
for
years
,
and
,
indeed
,
may
be
said
never
to
have
left
him
.
He
would
often
spend
a
whole
day
settling
and
resettling
in
their
cases
the
various
stones
that
he
had
collected
,
such
as
the
olive-green
chrysoberyl
that
turns
red
by
lamp-light
,
the
cymophane
with
its
wire-like
line
of
silver
,
the
pistachio-coloured
peridot
,
rose-pink
and
wine-yellow
topazes
,
carbuncles
of
fiery
scarlet
with
tremulous
four-rayed
stars
,
flame-red
cinnamon-stones
,
orange
and
violet
spinels
,
and
amethysts
with
their
alternate
layers
of
ruby
and
sapphire
.
He
loved
the
red
gold
of
the
sunstone
,
and
the
moonstone
's
pearly
whiteness
,
and
the
broken
rainbow
of
the
milky
opal
.
He
procured
from
Amsterdam
three
emeralds
of
extraordinary
size
and
richness
of
colour
,
and
had
a
turquoise
de
la
vieille
roche
that
was
the
envy
of
all
the
connoisseurs
.
He
discovered
wonderful
stories
,
also
,
about
jewels
.
In
Alphonso
's
"
Clericalis
Disciplina
"
a
serpent
was
mentioned
with
eyes
of
real
jacinth
,
and
in
the
romantic
history
of
Alexander
,
the
Conqueror
of
Emathia
was
said
to
have
found
in
the
vale
of
Jordan
snakes
"
with
collars
of
real
emeralds
growing
on
their
backs
.
"
There
was
a
gem
in
the
brain
of
the
dragon
,
Philostratus
told
us
,
and
"
by
the
exhibition
of
golden
letters
and
a
scarlet
robe
"
the
monster
could
be
thrown
into
a
magical
sleep
,
and
slain
.
According
to
the
great
alchemist
,
Pierre
de
Boniface
,
the
diamond
rendered
a
man
invisible
,
and
the
agate
of
India
made
him
eloquent
.
The
cornelian
appeased
anger
,
and
the
hyacinth
provoked
sleep
,
and
the
amethyst
drove
away
the
fumes
of
wine
.
The
garnet
cast
out
demons
,
and
the
hydropicus
deprived
the
moon
of
her
colour
.
The
selenite
waxed
and
waned
with
the
moon
,
and
the
meloceus
,
that
discovers
thieves
,
could
be
affected
only
by
the
blood
of
kids
.
Leonardus
Camillus
had
seen
a
white
stone
taken
from
the
brain
of
a
newly-killed
toad
,
that
was
a
certain
antidote
against
poison
.
The
bezoar
,
that
was
found
in
the
heart
of
the
Arabian
deer
,
was
a
charm
that
could
cure
the
plague
.
In
the
nests
of
Arabian
birds
was
the
aspilates
,
that
,
according
to
Democritus
,
kept
the
wearer
from
any
danger
by
fire
.
The
King
of
Ceilan
rode
through
his
city
with
a
large
ruby
in
his
hand
,
at
the
ceremony
of
his
coronation
.
The
gates
of
the
palace
of
John
the
Priest
were
"
made
of
sardius
,
with
the
horn
of
the
horned
snake
inwrought
,
so
that
no
man
might
bring
poison
within
.
"
Over
the
gable
were
"
two
golden
apples
,
in
which
were
two
carbuncles
,
"
so
that
the
gold
might
shine
by
day
,
and
the
carbuncles
by
night
.
In
Lodge
's
strange
romance
"
A
Margarite
of
America
"
it
was
stated
that
in
the
chamber
of
the
queen
one
could
behold
"
all
the
chaste
ladies
of
the
world
,
inchased
out
of
silver
,
looking
through
fair
mirrours
of
chrysolites
,
carbuncles
,
sapphires
,
and
greene
emeraults
.
"
Marco
Polo
had
seen
the
inhabitants
of
Zipangu
place
rose-coloured
pearls
in
the
mouths
of
the
dead
.
A
sea-monster
had
been
enamoured
of
the
pearl
that
the
diver
brought
to
King
Perozes
,
and
had
slain
the
thief
,
and
mourned
for
seven
moons
over
its
loss
.
When
the
Huns
lured
the
king
into
the
great
pit
,
he
flung
it
away
--
Procopius
tells
the
story
--
nor
was
it
ever
found
again
,
though
the
Emperor
Anastasius
offered
five
hundred-weight
of
gold
pieces
for
it
.
The
King
of
Malabar
had
shown
to
a
certain
Venetian
a
rosary
of
three
hundred
and
four
pearls
,
one
for
every
god
that
he
worshipped
.
When
the
Duke
de
Valentinois
,
son
of
Alexander
VI
.
,
visited
Louis
XII
.
of
France
,
his
horse
was
loaded
with
gold
leaves
,
according
to
Brantôme
,
and
his
cap
had
double
rows
of
rubles
that
threw
out
a
great
light
.
Charles
of
England
had
ridden
in
stirrups
hung
with
four
hundred
and
twenty-one
diamonds
.
Richard
II
.
had
a
coat
,
valued
at
thirty
thousand
marks
,
which
was
covered
with
balas
rubies
.
Hall
described
Henry
VIII.
,
on
his
way
to
the
Tower
previous
to
his
coronation
,
as
wearing
"
a
jacket
of
raised
gold
,
the
placard
embroidered
with
diamonds
and
other
rich
stones
,
and
a
great
bauderike
about
his
neck
of
large
balasses
.
"
The
favourites
of
James
I.
wore
earrings
of
emeralds
set
in
gold
filigrane
.
Edward
II
.
gave
to
Piers
Gaveston
a
suit
of
red-gold
armour
studded
with
jacinths
,
a
collar
of
gold
roses
set
with
turquoise-stones
,
and
a
skull-cap
parsemé
with
pearls
.
Henry
II
.
wore
jewelled
gloves
reaching
to
the
elbow
,
and
had
a
hawk-glove
sewn
with
twelve
rubies
and
fifty-two
great
orients
.
The
ducal
hat
of
Charles
the
Rash
,
the
last
Duke
of
Burgundy
of
his
race
,
was
hung
with
pear-shaped
pearls
,
and
studded
with
sapphires
.
How
exquisite
life
had
once
been
!
How
gorgeous
in
its
pomp
and
decoration
!
Even
to
read
of
the
luxury
of
the
dead
was
wonderful
.
Then
he
turned
his
attention
to
embroideries
,
and
to
the
tapestries
that
performed
the
office
of
frescoes
in
the
chill
rooms
of
the
Northern
nations
of
Europe
.
As
he
investigated
the
subject
--
and
he
always
had
an
extraordinary
faculty
of
becoming
absolutely
absorbed
for
the
moment
in
whatever
he
took
up
--
he
was
almost
saddened
by
the
reflection
of
the
ruin
that
Time
brought
on
beautiful
and
wonderful
things
.
He
,
at
any
rate
,
had
escaped
that
.
Summer
followed
summer
,
and
the
yellow
jonquils
bloomed
and
died
many
times
,
and
nights
of
horror
repeated
the
story
of
their
shame
,
but
he
was
unchanged
.
No
winter
marred
his
face
or
stained
his
flower-like
bloom
.
