[The King keeps Fowl.] The King hath Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Pigeons, which he keeps tame, but none else may.  Turkeys he delights not in, because they change the colour of their heads:  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 there are Fish thus fed and kept onely for the Kings Recreation:  for he will never let any be catched for his use.