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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART II
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Which after some time by giving of Fees and Gifts to the great ones, they do redeem again: And sometimes the whole Family and Generation perish, as I said before.

So that after a Lad is taken into the King's Palace, his Kindred are afraid to acknowledge Alliance to him.

But these matters may more properly be related, when we come to speak of his Tyranny.
[His Pleasure Houses.] Sometimes for his Pleasure, he will ride or be carried to his Banquetting-House, which is about a Musquet-shot from his Palace.

It stands on a little Hill; where with abundance of pains and many Months labour, they have made a little Plain, in length not much above an Arrows flight, in breadth less.

Where at the head of a small Valley, he hath made a Bank cross to stop the Water running down.


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