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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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This fruit they cut in slices and fry it in Coker-nut oyl.

And with this oyl they anoint the body.
[The Caudle for Lying in women.] The ordinary Caudle for Women in Child-bed, is Goraca boyled in water with Pepper and Ginger.

Women in that condition use nothing else.

This [Goraca.] Goraca is a fruit round like an Apple marked with divers creases along the sides of it.

Being ripe it is within and without red like blood, but sower, they use this fruit as we do Lemons and Oranges.


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