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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... Elephants . The way of catching Elephants . Their understanding . Their Nature . The dammage they do . Serve the King for executing his Malefactors . Their Disease . The Sport they make . Ants of divers sorts . How one sort of them ...
... Elephants . The way of catching Elephants . Their understanding . Their Nature . The dammage they do . Serve the King for executing his Malefactors . Their Disease . The Sport they make . Ants of divers sorts . How one sort of them ...
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... Elephants . Great Treasures thrown into the River formerly . The Treasure he most valueth . P. 74 CHAP . V. Of the King's great Officers , and the Governors of the Provinces . The two Greatest Officers in the Land . The next Great ...
... Elephants . Great Treasures thrown into the River formerly . The Treasure he most valueth . P. 74 CHAP . V. Of the King's great Officers , and the Governors of the Provinces . The two Greatest Officers in the Land . The next Great ...
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... Elephants . The Dowries they give . Their disposi- tion . The Inhabitants of the Mountains differ from those of the Low - Lands . Their good opinion of Virtue , tho they practice it not . Superstitions . How they Travel . A brief ...
... Elephants . The Dowries they give . Their disposi- tion . The Inhabitants of the Mountains differ from those of the Low - Lands . Their good opinion of Virtue , tho they practice it not . Superstitions . How they Travel . A brief ...
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... Elephant they took up for the second Night . The next morn- ing they fall in among Towns before they are aware . The ... Elephants . They overtake another Man , who tells them they were in the Dutch Dominions . They arrive at Arrepa Fort ...
... Elephant they took up for the second Night . The next morn- ing they fall in among Towns before they are aware . The ... Elephants . They overtake another Man , who tells them they were in the Dutch Dominions . They arrive at Arrepa Fort ...
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... Elephants per annum . The King left this City about Twenty Years ago , and never since has come at it . So that it is now quite gone to decay . A second City is Nellemby - neur , lying in Oudipollat , South of Cande , some Twelve miles ...
... Elephants per annum . The King left this City about Twenty Years ago , and never since has come at it . So that it is now quite gone to decay . A second City is Nellemby - neur , lying in Oudipollat , South of Cande , some Twelve miles ...
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