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left; then we placed their hands between ours, 

 and put tlern at laft :o our foreheads. 



The Gentoqs make ufe of the Malabark 

 language; the Moors (leak a dialett of the 

 Arabicky which the Terfees mud learn ; for 

 which reafon there are but few who know the 

 language of their anceftors. As for other 

 people, fome broken Portuguese is fufficient 

 in all the trading towns of the fouthern Afia, 

 They eat fitting on a mat, fpread on the floor; 

 and lay the table-cloth on the fame place. 

 Rice ferves them inflead of bread, and is ei- 

 ther boiled in pots, or kneaded and baked on 

 plates, like the thin bread ufual in Babus 

 Lan \ I am unacquainted with the drink 

 made ufe of by the rich ; but the common 

 people latisfy their third with water ; if they 

 will have any thing flronger, they procure 

 toddy (or the juice drawn out of the cocoa- 

 tree) at a very confiderable price. Befides this, 

 according to the account of Bonave?itura f the 

 root? of millet will likewife intoxicate. A fin- 

 gular fcruple fometimes hinders thefe people 

 r:om eating with others, out of the fame difb. 

 A Mahometan can make a bargain of a hundred 



* A province in NenoOy on the Scaggerac. F. 



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