 Tembul, to gratify a certain habit and desire they have, continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites. The Lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor and other aromatic spices, and also mixt with quicklime....  Palms and Pearls: Or Scenes in Ceylon - Strana 247podľa Alan Walters - 1892 - Počet stránok 317Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - Počet stránok 592
...have, continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites. The lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor...And this practice was said to be very good for the health.1 If any one desires to offer a gross insult to another, when he meets him he spits this leaf... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - Počet stránok 884
...have, continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites. The lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor...And this practice was said to be very good for the health.3 If any one desires to offer a gross insult to another, when he meets him he spits this leaf... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - Počet stránok 768
...have, continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites. The Lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor...And this practice was said to be very good for the health.4 If any one desires to оЯег a gross insult to another, when he meets him he spits this... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - Počet stránok 1088
...custom of perpetually keeping in the mouth a certain leaf called fembul .... the lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor...other aromatic spices, and also mixt with quicklime. . . .— Marco Polo, ii. 358. See also Abdu,rra:zak, in India in XV. Cent., p. 32. 1498.— In Vasco... | |
 | Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Norman Mosley Penzer - 1927 - Počet stránok 412
...have, continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites. The Lords and gentlefolks and the King have these leaves prepared with camphor and other aromatic spices, and also mixed with quicklime. And this practice was said to be very good for the health. If anyone desires... | |
 | Madras (India : State) - 1917 - Počet stránok 560
...are continually chewing it and spitting out the saliva that it excites ; the lords and gentlefolks and the king have these leaves prepared with camphor and other aromatic spices and also mix with quicklime and the practice was said to be very good for the health. If anyone desires to offer... | |
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