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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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But in time of Harvest two Pales for a Laree.

Four of these Pales make an Ommouna.

In which they keep the account of their Corn, reckoning by Ommounas.
[Their Weights.] For their Weights, their smallest is Collonda, six make just a Piece of eight.

They have half Collondas and quarter Collondas.

When they are to weigh things smaller than a Collonda, they weigh them with a kind of red Berries, which grow in the Woods, and are just like Beads.


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