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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART II
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Thro the middle of them there is an arched passage which serves for a Door.

On the top of the Poles are Flags flying, and all about hung full of painted Cloth with Images, and Figures of Men, and Beasts, and Birds, and Flowers: Fruits also are hanged up in great order and exactness.

On each side of the entrance of the Arch stand Plantane Trees, with bunches of Plantanes on them as if they were growing.
There are also in some places single Poles of an exceeding height standing by, with long Penons of divers colours flying, and a Bell at the end of each, as in the Figure B.And now they say, The Palace is adorned beyond Heaven.
All the Army is summoned in to stand and wait at the Palace, for the greater State.

In the mean time he goes to his Washing-houses, houses built on purpose for him to wash in, called Oulpungi, here are Baths, and Streams and Conveyances of Water, and many Servants, whose Office it is to wait upon the business of these houses.

Here he washes his head.


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