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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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The benefit of the Sacrifices that are offered here do belong unto the Moors Pilgrims, who come over from the other Coast to beg, this having been given them heretofore by a former King.

So that at that season there are great numbers of them always waiting there to receive their accustomed Fees.
The Tree is at the North end of the King's Dominions at Annarodgburro.

This Tree, they say, came flying over from the other Coast, and there planted it self, as it now stands, under which the Buddou-God at his being on earth used, as they say, often to fit.

This is now become a place of solemn worship.

The due performance whereof they reckon not to be a little meritorious: insomuch that, as they report, Ninety Kings have since reigned there successively, where by the ruins that still remain, it appears they spared not for pains and labour to build Temples and high Monuments to the honour of this God, as if they had been born only to hew Rocks, and great Stones, and lay them up in heaps.


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