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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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There they will set a sharp pole like a Spear full against the Haunt.

So that the Deer when she leaps over thrusts her self upon the point of it.
If a Tyger chance to come into their Grounds and kill a Cow, they will take notice of the place thro which he passed, and set a Cross-bow there ready charged.

The Tyger coming that way again touches something that is fastned to the tricker of the Cross-bow, and so it discharges upon him.
[How they take the Wild Boar.] The wild Hog is of all other the hardest to be caught; and 'tis dangerous to attempt the catching of him.

For the people make valour to consist in three things, one is to fight against the Enemy, another to hunt the Elephant, and the third to catch Hoggs.

Yet sometimes by their art they entrap them.


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