There we learned that one of its main export products is nutmeg. From it they extract macis, a red membrane that involves the nut, which is also used as a spice - with a different flavor and aroma.
We also learned that if you eat a whole nutmeg , or 5 grams of its ground product, it can produce intoxication effects such as lack of control over movements, and auditive and visual hallucinations. It contains myristicin, which inhibits irreversibly the effect of an enzyme called monoamine oxidase, which on its turn catalyzes hormones such as noradrenaline, dopamine e serotonin. The former activate attentiveness and regulate humor states such as euphoria and depression.
In Granada we also met the Captain of a tug who offered us quite a bit of cash to work aboard under full (meaning complete) regime. This man looked just like Kojak and also came from Borneo! So we declined... cause going on was necessary.
Our participation in Act IV finished at Puerto La Cruz, in Venezuela, once more.
And that is how Iemanjá came about. She was a a 42 foot single made catamaran skippered by Avi, who took us in and sheltered from the insane life until we got to Saint Marteen.
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