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276 AN EARLY DUTCH ACCOUNT OF INDIA be known that some of them who are punished in lamma-locon win forth therefrom after that they have been therein for the space that was ordained them for their sins; and having passed this space, they them- selves come again to this world and enter into one or another body. Howbeit, some of them that fare to hell, win not forth, but must be punished there to all eter- nity, and these are they that fare unto Antam tappes, that is, the pit of darkness. They say that this is a dark pit, which is called Antam tappes because of its darkness; and that they who fall therein never win forth from it, but ever abide there, yet without dying; and that there they must endure all manner of pains and torments. There, they say, are thorns; there are crows with iron beaks; there are savage dogs; there are gnats that bite cruelly; cold, and all that may serve for the increase of pain and torment. Let us now go investigate also what they believe concerning the state of them who are blessed after their death. Here it must be known that some of them may come again to this world after their death, when that a certain definite space of years be passed; and that some never return, but win to eternal and everlasting beatitude. For them that depart hence but may come again to this world, they say there are seven places, which are Indre-locon or Dewendre-locon, Agni-locon, Niruti-locon, Wajouvia-locon, Cubera-locon, Isanja-lo- con, and Warrouna-locon. Each of these places is named after the head who ruleth over it. They say that in each of these places they who win to them