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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Round about against the walls of their houses are banks of clay to sit on; which they often daub over with soft Cow-dung, to keep them smooth and clean.

Their Slaves and Servants dwell round about without in other houses with their wives and children.
[Their Furniture.] Their Furniture is but small.

A few earthen pots which hang up in slings made of Canes in the middle of their houses, having no shelves; one or two brass Basons to eat in, a stool or two without backs.

For none but the King may sit upon a stool with a back.

There are also some baskets to put corn in, some mats to spread upon the ground to sleep on: which is the bedding both for themselves and friends when they come to their houses.


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