(1695) my inbeelde , meende .exhalation from the Mace , I speculated whether the bags of Mace , called sukkels , which are packed in coco leaves and are further wrapped up with thin cane , might not have lain in the ship near the bread - room , and the Mites , having strayed from the bread - room , might not have got among the Mace and died there .I then asked where the Mace bags had lain in the ship , upon which I was told : this time in the Bread - room , but in other cases they lay on the pepper , so that it did not seem strange to me that the said Mace , surrounding the Nutmegs , was covered with many dead Mites .