They have a very great veneration for these Trees, worshipping them; upon a Tradition, That the Buddou, a great God among them, when he was upon the Earth, did use to sit under this kind of Trees.

There are many of these Trees, which they plant all the Land over, and have more care of, than of any other.

They pave round under them like a Key, sweep often under them to keep them clean; they light Lamps, and set up their Images under them: and a stone Table is placed under some of them to lay their Sacrifices on.

They set them every where in Towns and High wayes, where any convenient places are: they serve also for shade to Travellers.

They will also set them in memorial of persons deceased, to wit, there, where their Bodies were burnt.