This With thus hung they drag down with the stream, and to Leeward they place Fish-pots between the Rocks, and so drive the Fish into them.

Nets or other wayes they have few or none.
[Fish kept and fed for the Kings Pleasure.] At a Passage-place near to the City of Candy, the Fish formerly have been nourished and fed by the Kings order, to keep them there for his Majesties pleasure; whither, having used to be thus provided for, notwithstanding Floods and strong Streams, they will still resort: and are so tame, that I have seen them eat out of mens hands; but death it is to them that presume to catch them.

The people passing over here, will commonly feed them with some of their Rice, accounting it a piece of charity so to do, and pleasure to see them eat it.

In many other places also there are Fish thus fed and kept onely for the Kings Recreation: for he will never let any be catched for his use.
[Serpents.

The Pimberah of a prodigious bigness.] Of Serpents, there are these sorts.