ir Almanacks. They pretend to know future things
by the Stars. Their AEra. 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
coming to Ceylon. They were not jealous of the People being
very Courteous. A Message pretended to the Captain from the
King. The beginning of their Suspition. The Captain seized and
seven more. The Long-boat men seized. The General's craft to
get the Ship as well as the Men. The Captains Order to them on
board the Ship. The Captains second Message to his Ship. The
Ships Company refuse to bring up the Ship. The Captain
orders the Ship to depart. The Lading of Cloath remained
untouched. The probable reason of our Surprize. The number
of those that were left on the Island. The Dissauva departs.

CHAP. II.

How we were carried up in the Country, and disposed of there, and of
the Sickness, Sorrow and Death of the Captain.

They intend to attempt an Escape, but are prevented. Their
Condition commiserated by the People. They are distributed
into divers Towns. An Order comes from the King to bring
them up into the Country. How they were treated on the way in
the Woods. And in the Towns among the Inhabitants. They are
brought near Cande, and there separated. The Captain and his
Son and two more quartered together. Parted: How they fared:
The Captain and his Son placed in Coos-swat. Monies scarce
with them. But they had good