by the Stars. Their Æra. Their Years, Months, Weeks, Days,
Hours. How they measure their Time. Their Magic. The Plenty
of a Country destroyed by Magic. Their Charm to find out a
Thief. The way to dissolve this Charm. Inscriptions upon Rocks.


CHAP. XI.

Of their Sickness, Death and Burial.

The Diseases this Countrey is subject to. Every one a Physician
to himself. To Purge: To Vomit. To heal Sores. To heal an
Impostume. For an hurt in the Eye. To cure the Itch. The Candle
for Lying-in Women. Goraca, a Fruit. Excellent at the Cure
of Poyson. They easily heal the biting of Serpents by Herbs,
And Charms. But not good at healing inward Distempers. They
both bury and burn their Dead. They send for a Priest to pray
for the Soul of the Departed. How they mourn for the Dead. The
nature of the Women. How they bury. How they burn. How they
bury those that dy of the Small Pox.


PART IV.


CHAP. I.

Of the reason of our going to Ceylon, and Detainment there.

The subject of this Fourth Part. The occasion of their