Then those which are to be ventred
for Fraunce, they pack in staunch hogsheads, so to keepe them in
their pickle. Those that serue for the hotter Countries of Spaine
and Italie, they vsed at first to fume, by hanging them vp on long
sticks one by one, in a house built for the nonce, & there drying
them with the smoake of a soft and continuall fire, from whence they
purchased the name of Fumados: but now, though the terme still
remaine, that trade is giuen ouer: and after they haue bene ripped
out of the bulk, reffed vpon sticks, & washed, they pack them orderly
in hogsheads made purposely leake, which afterward they presse with
great waights, to the end the traine may soke from them into a
vessell placed in the ground to receyue it.
In packing, they keepe a iust tale of the number that euery hogshead
contayneth, which otherwise may turne to the Marchants preiudice:
for I haue heard, that when they are brought to the place of sale,
the buyer openeth one hogs-head at aduentures; and if hee finde the
same not to answere the number figured on the outside, hee abateth a
like proportion in euery other, as there wanted in that.
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