An Historical Relation of Ceylon: Together with Somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkeable Passages of My Life that Hath Hapned Since My Deliverance Out of My Capitivity |
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Page lviii
... Chingu- lays . Wild Men . Who pay an acknowledgement to the King . How they bespeak Arrows to be made them . They rob the Carriers . Hourly wild Men Trade with the People . Once made to serve the King in his War . Their Habit and ...
... Chingu- lays . Wild Men . Who pay an acknowledgement to the King . How they bespeak Arrows to be made them . They rob the Carriers . Hourly wild Men Trade with the People . Once made to serve the King in his War . Their Habit and ...
Page lxvii
... the King as a Present . The number of Dutch there . They follow their Vice of Drinking . The Chingulays prejudiced against the Dutch , and why . p . 281 CHAP . XIV . Concerning the French . With some lxvii THE CONTENTS.
... the King as a Present . The number of Dutch there . They follow their Vice of Drinking . The Chingulays prejudiced against the Dutch , and why . p . 281 CHAP . XIV . Concerning the French . With some lxvii THE CONTENTS.
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... Chingulays call the large leaves the boughs , and the leaves on the sides , the leaves . They fall off every Year , and the skin upon which they grow , with them . These skins grow upon the body The Skins , of the Tree , and the leaves ...
... Chingulays call the large leaves the boughs , and the leaves on the sides , the leaves . They fall off every Year , and the skin upon which they grow , with them . These skins grow upon the body The Skins , of the Tree , and the leaves ...
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... Chingulays by a general name are called Alloes , by the Portugals and us Inyames . They are of divers and sundry sorts , some they plant , and some grow wild ; those that grow wild in the Woods are as good , onely they are more scarce ...
... Chingulays by a general name are called Alloes , by the Portugals and us Inyames . They are of divers and sundry sorts , some they plant , and some grow wild ; those that grow wild in the Woods are as good , onely they are more scarce ...
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... Chingulays . Tho un- doubtedly they chiefly regard the wisedom that is concealed under this , and the rest of their Fables . There is a sixth sort called Vaeos . These are more numerous than any of the former . All the whole Earth doth ...
... Chingulays . Tho un- doubtedly they chiefly regard the wisedom that is concealed under this , and the rest of their Fables . There is a sixth sort called Vaeos . These are more numerous than any of the former . All the whole Earth doth ...
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