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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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The first of which they account a good and a fortunate day to begin to do or undertake any thing: and it falls out upon our Sunday.

On their Wednesdays, and Saturdays they open their Churches, and perform their Ceremonies.

Their day, which they call Dausack, they divide into Thirty Pays, hours or parts, and begin their account from the Sun rising, and their Night also into as many, and begin from Sun-setting: So that the Fifteenth Pay is Twelve a Clock at Noon.

They have a Flower by which they judge of the time, which constantly blows open seven Pays before Night.
[How they measure their time.] They have no Clocks, Hour-glasses, or Sun-Dials, but keep their time by guess.

The King indeed hath a kind of Instrument to measure time.


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