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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Of these there are great Numbers.

They wash Cloths for all People to the degree of a Potter; but for none below that degree.

Their usual Posture is to carry a Cloth on their Shoulder, both Men and Women: They use Lye in their washing, setting a Pot over the Fire holding seven or eight Gallons of Water, and lay the foul Cloths on the top; and the steam of the water goes into the Cloths and scalds them.

Then they take them and carry them to a River side, and instead of rubbing them with their hands, slap them against the Rock, and they become very clean; nor doth this tear the Cloths at all, as they order it.
[Jaggory-Makers.] Another rank after these are the Hungrams, or Jaggory-Makers.

Tho none will eat with them, yet it is lawful to buy and eat the Jaggory they make, (which is a kind of Sugar) but nothing else.
[The Poddah.] Another sort among them is the Poddah.


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