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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... Fruits , Birds , Fishes , Insects , Minerals , Stones ; and told you many more of the Medicinal and other uses of them in Trades and Manu- factures . He could have given you a compleat Dictionary of their Language , understanding and ...
... Fruits , Birds , Fishes , Insects , Minerals , Stones ; and told you many more of the Medicinal and other uses of them in Trades and Manu- factures . He could have given you a compleat Dictionary of their Language , understanding and ...
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... Fruits , Flowers , Herbs , Roots , Plants and Trees , and by the way shelter you from Sun and Rain , with a Fan made of the Talipat - Leaf . Then shew you their Beasts , Birds , Fish , Serpents , Insects ; and last of all , their ...
... Fruits , Flowers , Herbs , Roots , Plants and Trees , and by the way shelter you from Sun and Rain , with a Fan made of the Talipat - Leaf . Then shew you their Beasts , Birds , Fish , Serpents , Insects ; and last of all , their ...
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... Fruits and delicious . The best Fruits where ever they grow reserved for the Kings use . Betel - Nuts , The Trees , The Fruit , The Leaves , The Skins , and their use . The Wood . The Profit the Fruit yields . Jacks , another choyce ...
... Fruits and delicious . The best Fruits where ever they grow reserved for the Kings use . Betel - Nuts , The Trees , The Fruit , The Leaves , The Skins , and their use . The Wood . The Profit the Fruit yields . Jacks , another choyce ...
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... Fruit . Excellent at the Cure of Poyson . They easily heal the biting of Serpents by Herbs , And Charms . But not good at healing inward Distempers . They both bury and burn their Dead . They send for a Priest to pray for the Soul of ...
... Fruit . Excellent at the Cure of Poyson . They easily heal the biting of Serpents by Herbs , And Charms . But not good at healing inward Distempers . They both bury and burn their Dead . They send for a Priest to pray for the Soul of ...
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... fruit ) growing in that place ; but this never bare fruit , but onely leaves , which in their Language is Cola , and thence they called the Tree Colambo : which the Christians in honour of Columbus turned to Columbo . It is the chief ...
... fruit ) growing in that place ; but this never bare fruit , but onely leaves , which in their Language is Cola , and thence they called the Tree Colambo : which the Christians in honour of Columbus turned to Columbo . It is the chief ...
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