with an Account of his Travels and Adventures. After having related to him several Curiosities which he had seen in the
Indies
,
It was in this Place
, says he,
that I contracted an Acquaintance with an old
Brachman,
who was skilled in the most hidden Powers of Nature: He died within my Arms, and with his parting Breath communicated to me one of the most valuable of his Secrets, on Condition I should never reveal it to any Man
. The King immediately reflecting on his young Favourite's having refused the late Offers of Greatness he had made him, told him he presumed it was the Power of making Gold.
No Sir