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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Being cut there runs out a white thick milk; in which we soak some whole corns of Pepper a whole night.

The next day the Pepper is taken out, and washed clean, and then boyled in fair water with a sower fruit they call Goraca, which we shall speak of by and by.

This they drink, and it purgeth very well.

This milk is rekoned as rank Poyson as any thing can be, and yet the Goats eat of the Tree greedily without harm.
[To Vomit.] For a Vomit, there is is a leaf of a Plant called Warracole in colour like a Cabbage leaf, but smaller; it grows upon a long stalk some three foot high.

This leaf as soon as it is broken from the stalk is full of milk, which runs out.


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