it is dressed in,
and their wives serve them with it, when they call for it. For it
is their duties to wait and serve their Husbands while they eat,
and when they have done, then to take and eat that which they have
left upon their Trenchers. During their eating they neither use nor
delight to talk to one another.

[Their manner of washing before and after meals.] They always wash
their hands and mouths both before and after they have eaten; but
for others to pour the water on their hands is looked upon as an
affront. For so they do to them, whom they account not worthy to
handle their Water pot. But when they wash, with one hand they pour
it themselves upon the other. They are very cleanly both in their
bodies and heads, which they do very often wash, and also when they
have been at stool they make use of water.

[None must speak while the Rice is put into the Pot.] But to give you
a little of their Cookery. If People be in the room talking together,
the woman being ready to put the Rice into the Pot, bids them all be
silent till she has put it in, and then they may procede with their
discourse. For if they should talk while the Rice is putting in,
it would not swell.

[Sawce made of Lemmon juyce.] At the time of the year that there is
most plenty of Lemmons, they take them and squeez the juyce into an
earthen Pot, and set over the fire, and boil it so long, till it
becomes thick and black like Tar. This they set by for their use,
and it will keep as long as they please. A very small quantity of it
will suffice for sawce. They call it Annego.

[Their sweet meats.] They have several sorts of sweet-meats. One
they call Caown. It is like to a Fritter made of Rice-flower, and
Jaggory. They make them up in little lumps, and lay them upon a Leaf,
and then press them with their thumbs, and put them into a Frying-Pan,
and fry them in Coker-nut Oyl or Butter. When the Dutch came first to
Columba, the King ordered these Caown to be made and sent to them as
a royal Treat. And they say, the Dutch did so admire them, that they
asked if they grew not upon Trees, supposing it past the Art of man
to make such dainties.

Oggulas another sort of sweet-meats, made of parched Rice, Jaggory,
Pepper, Cardamum, and a little Cinnamons. They rowl them up in Balls,
which will grow hard. These they tie up in bags and carry them with
them when they travail to eat in afternoons when they are hungry.

Alloways made much after the former man