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" 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 - Page 247
by Alan Walters - 1892 - 317 pages
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning ..., Volume 2; Volume 156

Marco Polo - 1871 - 590 pages
...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...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volume 2

Marco Polo - 1875 - 884 pages
...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...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volume 2

Marco Polo - 1903 - 770 pages
...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...
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Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and ..., Volume 2

Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1088 pages
...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...
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The Ocean of Story, Volume 8

Somadeva Bhaṭṭa - 1927 - 412 pages
...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...
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Madras District Gazetteers, Volume 1

Madras (India : State) - 1917 - 560 pages
...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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