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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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These are very poysonous; and they keep in hollow Trees and holes.

Men bitten with them will not dy, but the pain will for some time put them out of their Sences.
Cattle are often bit by some of these Snakes, and as often found dead of them, tho not eaten.

Treading upon them sleeping, or the like, may be the cause of it.

When the people are bitten by any of these, they are cured by Charms and Medicines, if taken and applyed in time.
There are also a sort of Water Snakes they call Duberria; but harmless.
Alligators may be reduced hither: there be many of them.

Of which we have said somewhat before.
[Kobbera-guion, a creature like an Alligator.] There is a Creature here called Kobbera guion, resembling an Alligator.


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