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Things like cardamom, Indian spikenard, and many of the eastern nuts would be imported, but it seems unnecessary to climb far up into the mountains of Tibet to find the same plant that was available in people's back woods.

Yes, that is of course true. One of the ID's in the small plants section I feel most confident about is saffron.

The idea would be though, that this is more of a general guidebook for managing a fleet or a ship. Say you are in this or that exotic place and you need to instantly repair your ship's ropes, what do you get? Or some of the crew are full of sores or insect bites near Nepal, what remedy is available?

That's certainly one way of looking at it, if a crew were off in an exotic locale, they would want to know what remedies to were available, particularly remedies for ailments like "quartain fever".


I really hate to debate the identifcation of saffron in the small-plants section (and I won't do it on this thread), but even though I think you've presented a great argument for it, I'm not entirely certain that's what it is.