Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies: Together With, an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author, and Divers, Other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape |
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Adam's Peak alligators ants bears beasts betel betel nut bigger Bintan birds boil boughs brought carry catch cattle caught cerning CEYLON CHAP Chingulays cinnamon city of Candy cocoa colour command Conde Uda corn coun court creature deer divers doth dry weather Dutch elephants fall feet fish flowers fruit gauhah green ground grow head herbs hills Holborn holes hollow trees honour houses keep killed kind king hath king's palace land leaf leaves legs man's manner never night noya nuts oftentimes Ouvah person piece plant plenty plough polonga ponds Portuguese rains rattan reaping ripe ripen river ROBERT KNOX salt seed shew side signifying skin smell sometimes stand stone strong tanna taste things towns tread unto venomous watch whereof white cloth wild wild hog women woods young