[An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies by Robert Knox]@TWC D-Link bookAn Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies PART III 99/205
VII. Of their Lodging, Bedding, Whoredom, Marriages, and Children. Having been thus entertained with the fine Ladies abroad, it is time now to return home to our Lodging.
And the night coming on, we will lead you to their Bed-Chambers, and shew you how they sleep.
About which they are not very curious.
If their house be but one room (as it often is) then the men sleep together at one end and the women at the other. [Their Bed, and how they sleep a nights.] They have Bedsteads laced with Canes or Rattans, but no Testars to them, nor Curtains; that the King allows not of; neither have they nor care they for more than one Bedstead, which is only for the Master of the house to sit or sleep on.
To this Bedstead belongs two mats and a straw Pillow.
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