[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 188/205
You walk over some of them.
There is an antient Temple Goddiladenni in Tattanour stands by one place where there are of these Letters.
They are probably in memorial of something, but of what we must leave to learned men to spend their conjectures. CHAP.
XI. Of their Sickness, Death and Burial. [The diseases this Countrey is subject to.] Nothing now remains, but to carry you to their Sick-beds, and to tell you what they do with the Bodies of their friends deceased, and their Behavior on these occasions.
They live to a great Age very often to fourscore, and hale at that age the Kings Sister was near an hundred.
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