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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART II
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He eats on a green Plantane-Leaf laid in a Gold Bason.

There are twenty or thirty Dishes prepared for him, which are brought into his Dining-Room.

And which of these Dishes the King pleases to call for, a Nobleman appointed for that service, takes a Portion of and reaches in a Ladle to the Kings Bason.

This person also waits with a mufler about his mouth.
[Chast himself, and requires his Attendants to be so.] And as he is abstemious in his eating, so in the use of women.

If he useth them 'tis unknown and with great secrecy.


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