ads: Neither doth he kill
any of these to eat, nor any other creature of what sort soever,
and he hath many, that he keeps tame.

[Their Fish.] They have no want of Fish, and those good ones too. All
little Rivers and Streams running thro the Valleys are full of small
Fish, but the Boyes and others wanting somewhat to eat with their Rice,
do continually catch them before they come to maturity: nay all their
Ponds are full of them, which in dry weather drying up, the people
catch multitudes of them in this manner. [How they catch them in
Ponds.] They have a kind of a Basket made of small Sticks, so close
that Fish cannot get thro; it is broad at bottom, and narrow at top,
like a funnel, the hole big enough for a man to thrust his Arm in,
wide at the mouth about two or three foot; these baskets they jobb
down, and the ends stick in the mud, which often happen upon a Fish;
when they do, they feel it by the Fish beating it self against the
sides. Then they put in their hands and take them out. And rieve a
Rattan thro their gills, and so let them drag after them. One end of
this Rattan is stuck in the fisher's girdle, and the other knotted,
that the fish should not slip off: which when it is full, he discharges
himself of them by carrying them ashore. Nay every ditch and little
plash of water but anckle deep hath fish in it.

The great River, Mavela-gonga, abounds exceedingly with them. Some of
them as big as Salmons. But the people have little understanding in
the way of taking them. [How they catch Fish in the River.] In very
dry weather, they stretch a With over the River, which they hang all
full of boughs of Trees to scare the Fish. This With thus hung they
drag down with the stream, and to Leeward they place Fish-pots between
the Rocks, and so drive the Fish into them. Nets or other wayes they
have few or none.

[Fish kept and fed for the Kings Pleasure.] At a Passage-place near
to the City of Candy, the Fish formerly have been nourished and fed
by the Kings order, to keep them there for his Majesties pleasure;
whither, having used to be thus provided for, notwithstanding Floods
and strong Streams, they will still resort: and are so tame, that I
have seen them eat out of mens hands; but death it is to them that
presume to catch them. The people passing over here, will commonly
feed them with some of their Rice, accounting it a piece of charity
so to do, and pleasure to see them eat it. In many other places also
the