[An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies by Robert Knox]@TWC D-Link bookAn Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies PART III 161/205
As if he ask them how many Children they have, they say so many Puppy dogs, and so many Puppy-bitches.
By which by the way, we may conjecture at the height of the King and the slavery of the People under him. [Words of Form and Civility.] They have certain words of Form and Civility, that they use upon occasion.
When they come to another mans house, he asks them what they come for, which is his civility, and they answer Nicamava, I come for nothing, which is their ordinary reply, tho they do come for something.
And upon this they have a Fable. A God came down upon earth one day, and bad all his Creatures come before him and demand what they would have and it should be granted them.
So all the beasts and other Creatures came, and one desired Strength, and another Legs, and another Wings, &c.
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