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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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It ripens in four months, some sorts of it in three.

There are also divers other sorts, which grow on dry Land (as the former) and ripen with the Rain.

[Moung.] As Moung, a Corn somewhat like Vetches, growing in a Cod.

[Omb.] Omb, a small seed, boyled and eaten as Rice.

It has an operation pretty strange, which is, that when it is new it will make them that eat it like drunk, sick and spue; and this only when it is sown in some Grounds, for in all it will not have this effect: and being old, none will have it.


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