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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies - Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author - and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's - Miraculous Escape by Robert Knox
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Wood. The Profit the Fruit yields. Jacks, another choyce
Fruit. Jambo another. Other Fruits found in the Woods. Fruits
common with other Parts of India. The Tallipot; the rare use of
the Leaf. The Pith good to eat. The Kettule. Yields a delicious
juice. The Skin bears strings as strong as Wyer. The Wood;
its Nature and Use. The Cinnamon Tree. The Bark, The Wood,
The Leaf, The Fruit. The Orula. The Fruit good for Physic and
Dying. Water made of it will brighten rusty Iron, and serve
instead of Ink. The Dounekaia. The Capita. Rattans. Their
Fruit. Canes. The Betel tree. The Bo-gauhah or God-Tree.


CHAP. V.

Of their Plants, Herbs, Flowers.

Roots for Food, The manner of their growing. Boyling Herbs,
Fruits for Sawce. European Herbs and Plants among them. Herbs
for Medicine. Their Flowers, A Flower that serves instead of
a Dyal, called Sindric-mal. Picha-mais, Hop-inals.

CHAP. VI.

Of their Beasts Tame and Wild. Insects.

What Beasts the Country produceth. Deer no bigger than
Hares. Other Creatures rare in their kind. The way how a
wild Deer was catched for the King. Of their Elephants. The
way of catching Elephants. Their understanding. Their
Nature. The dammage they do. Serve the King for executing
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