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ROBERT KNOX. 



This interesting document stops short here. That 

 there was no sequel may be conjectured from this considera- 

 tion ; that, from the state of those troublous times, nothing 

 further could have been effected. 



The recipe for making Klein Bier (literally, small beer) 

 alluded to above is as follows : 

 For making 25 gallons. 



....lbs of sugar. 



6 Measures of roasted paddy. 



8 handfuls of the leaves called by the Sinhalese 



Manoecocke.* 

 4 handfuls of Marygosy f 



3 handfuls of lemon leaves, or of orange or lemon 

 peel. 



These ingredients are to be boiled down together to a 

 fourth part, then strained through a cloth into a vessel of 

 25 gallons capacity, which, being further filled with cold 

 water, lees of [beer] or toddy, to produce fermentation, is 

 to be left fermenting two days on its lees, and then poured 

 out into another vessel, and, after the lapse of two days 

 and pouring it out into a third vessel, it may be kept foy 

 some time, if covered over with earth or sods." 



* Leaves of the Margosa tree. ( Melia Azidarachta Indica) 

 (Sinhalese Kohomba. 



| Called at the present day Pengiri-mdna, i. e. lemon grass. 



1 UEG.1900 



