Chapter II: Part I: Chap. I

A General Description of the Island.

The Inland Parts of it hitherto unknown. The chief Places on
the Sea-Coasts. The Names of the Provinces and Counties of the
Inland Country. Which are divided from each other by Woods. The
Countrey Hilly, but inriched with Rivers. The great River
Mavelagonga described. Woody. Where most Populous and Healthful.
The nature of the Vallies. The great Hill, Adams Peaky,
described. The natural Strength of this Kingdom. The difference
of the Seasons in this Country. What Parts have most Rain.

CHAP. II.

Concerning the chief Cities and Towns of this Island.

The most Eminent Cities are Five. Viz. Cande, Nellemby,
Alloutneur. The Country of Bintan described. Badoulf. The
Province of Ouvah. Digligy, the place of the King's
Residence. Gauluda. Many ruines of Cities. Anarodgburro. The
nature of the Northern Parts. The Port of Portaloon Affords
Salt. Leawava Affords Salt in abundance, Described. Their
Towns how built. Many ly in ruins and forsaken. and upon
what occasion.

CHAP III.

Of their Corn, with their manner of Husbandry.

The Products and Commodities of the Country. Corn of divers
sorts. Rice. Growes in water. Their ingenuity in watering
their Corn-lands. Why they do not always sow the best kind of
Rice? They sow at different times, but reap together. Their
artificial Pooles, Alligators harbor in them. They sow Corn on
the mud. A sort of Rice that growes without water. The Seasons
of Seed-time and Harvest. A particular description of their
Husbandry. Their Plow. The convenience of these Plowes. Their
First plowing. Their Banks, and use of them. Their Second
plowing. How they prepare their Seed-Corn. And their Land
after it is plowed. Their manner of Sowing. How they manure
& order Young Corn. Their manner of reaping. They tread out
their Corn with Cattel. The Ceremonies they use when the Corn
is to be trodden. How they unhusk their Rice. Other sorts of
Corn among them. Coracan, Tanna, Moung, Omb.

CHAP. IV.

Of their Fruits and Trees.

Great Variety of Fruits and delicious. The best Fruits where
ever they grow reserved for the Kings use. Betel-Nuts, The
Trees, The Fruit, The Leaves, The Skins, and their use. The
Wood. The Profit the Fruit yields. Jacks, another choyce
Fruit. Jambo another. Other Fruits found in the Woods. Fruits
common with other Parts of India. The Tallipot; the rare use of
the Leaf. The Pith good to eat. The Kettule. Yields a delicious
juice. The Skin bears strings as strong as Wyer. The Wood;
its Nature and Use. The Cinnamon Tree. The Bark, The Wood,
The Leaf, The Fruit. The Orula. The Fruit good for Physic and
Dying. Water made of it will brighten rusty Iron, and serve
instead of Ink. The Dounekaia. The Capita. Rattans. Their
Fruit. Canes. The Betel tree. The Bo-gauhah or God-Tree.

CHAP. V.

Of their Plants, Herbs, Flowers.

Roots for Food, The manner of their growing. Boyling Herbs,
Fruits for Sawce. European Herbs and Plants among them. Herbs
for Medicine. Their Flowers, A Flower that serves instead of
a Dyal, called Sindric-mal. Picha-mais, Hop-inals.

CHAP. VI.

Of their Beasts Tame and Wild. Insects.

What Beasts the Country produceth. Deer no bigger than
Hares. Other Creatures rare in their kind. The way how a
wild Deer was catched for the King. Of their Elephants. The
way of catching Elephants. Their understanding. Their
Nature. The dammage they do. Serve the King for executing
his Malefactors. Their Disease. The Sport they make. Ants
of divers sorts. How one sort of them, called Coddias,
came to sting so terribly. These Ants very mischievous. The
curious Buildings of the Vaeos, another kind of them. The
manner of their death. Bees of several kinds. Some build on
Trees like Birds. The people eat the Bees, as well as their
Honey. Leaches, that ly in the grass, and creep on Travaylers
Legs. The Remedies they use against them. Apes and Monkeys
of divers kinds. How they catch Wild Beasts. How they take
the Wild Boar.

CHAP. VII.

Of their Birds, Fish, Serpents, and Commodities.

Their Birds. Such as will be taught to speak. Such as are
beautiful for Colour. A strange Bird. Water-Fowls resembling
Ducks and Swans. Peacocks. The King keeps Fowl. Their Fish,
How they catch them in Ponds, And how in Rivers. Fish kept
and fed for the King's Pleasure. Serpents. The Pimberah of a
prodigious bigness. The Polonga. The Noya. The Fable of the
Noya ana Polonga. The Carowala. Gerendo. Hickanella. Democulo,
a great Spider. Kobbera-guson, a Creature like an
Aligator. Tolla-guion. The people eat Rats. Precoius Stones,
Minerals, and other Commodities. The People discouraged from
Industry by the Tyranny they are under.