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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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The cloth they use, is not broad nor large, scarcely enough to cover their Buttocks.

The wilder and tamer sort of them do observe a Religion.

They have a God peculiar to themselves.

The tamer do build Temples, the wild only bring their sacrifice under Trees, and while it is offering, dance round it, both men and women.
[A Skirmish about their bounds.] They have their bounds in the Woods among themselves, and one company of them is not to shoot nor gather hony or fruit beyond those bounds.

Neer the borders stood a Jack-Tree; one Vaddah being gathering some fruit from this Tree, another Vaddah of the next division saw him, and told him he had nothing to do to gather Jacks from that Tree, for that belonged to them.


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