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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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And these Tirinanxes are the Landlords, unto whom the Tenants come at a certain time and pay in their Rents.

These Farmers live the easiest of any people in the Land, for they have nothing to do but at those set times to bring in their dues and so depart, and to keep in repair certain little Vehars in the Countrey.

So that the rest of the Chingulais envy them and say of them, Though they live easy in this world, they cannot escape unpunished in the life to come for enjoying the Buddou's land and doing him so little service for it.
[The habit of these Priests.] All the rest of the order are called Gonni.

The habit is the same to the whole order, both Tirinanxes and Gonni.

It is a yellow coat gathered together about their wast, and comes over their left shoulder, girt about with a belt of fine pack-thread.


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