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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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Yet afterwards, when they think the Devil hath departed the place, some will sometimes come back and re-assume their Lands again.
CHAP.

III.
Of their Corn, with their manner of Husbandry.
[The Products and Commodities of the Countrey.] Having discoursed hitherto of the Countrey, method will require that I proceed now to the Products of it; Viz.

their Fruits, Plants, Beasts, Birds, and other Creatures, Minerals, Commodities, &c.

whereof I must declare once for all, That I do not pretend to write an Exact and Perfect Treatise, my time and leisure not permitting me so to do; but only to give a Relation of some of the chief of these things, and as it were a tast of them, according as they that occur to my Memory while I am writing.

I shall first begin with their Corn, as being the Staff of their Countrey.
[Corn of divers sorts.] They have divers sorts of Corn, tho all different from ours.


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