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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47586	An historical relation of the island Ceylon, in the East-Indies together, with an account of the detaining in captivity the author and divers other Englishmen now living there, and of the authors miraculous escape : illustrated with figures, and a map of the island / by Robert Knox.	Knox, Robert, 1640?-1720.	1681 (1681)	Wing K742; ESTC R16598	257,665	227

prompted to or earnestly solicited for it neglect to do it others delay to do it so long till they have forgotten what they intended Such as these Importunity would prevail upon to disclose their knowledge if fitting Persons were found to Discourse and ask them Questions and to Compile the Answers into a History Of this kind was lately produc'd in High Dutch a History of Greenland by Dr. Fogelius of Hamborough from the Information of Frederick Martin who had made several Voyages to that Place in the doing of which he made use of the Instruction given by the Royal Society 'T is much to be wondred that we should to this Day want a good History of most of our VVest-Indian Plantations Ligon has done well for the Barbadoes and somewhat has been done for the Summer Islands Virginia c. But how far are all these short even of the knowledge of these and other Places of the VVest-Indies which may be obtain'd from divers knowing Planters now Residing in London And how easie were it to obtain what is Defective from some Ingenious Persons now Resident upon the Places if some way were found to gratifie them for their Performances However till such be found 't is to be hoped that the kind Acceptance only the Publick shall give to this present Work may excite several other Ingenuous and knowing Men to follow this Generous Example of Captain Knox who though he could bring away nothing almost upon his Back or in his Purse did yet Transport the whole Kingdom of Cande Uda in his Head and by Writing and Publishing this his Knowledge has freely given it to his Countrey and to You Reader in particular 'T was not I confess without the earnest Solicitations and Endeavours of my self and some others of his Friends obtain'd from him but this uneasiness of parting with it was not for want of Generosity and Freedom enough in Communicating whatever he knew or had observed but from that usual Prejudice of Modesty and too mean an Opinion of his own Knowledge and Abiâ—â—ties of doing any thing should be worthy the view of the Publick And had he found leisure to Compose it he could have filled a much greater Volume with useful and pertinent as well as unusual and strange Observations He could have inrich't it with a more particular Description of many of their curious Plants Fruits Birds Fishes Insects Minerals Stones and told you many more of the Medicinal and other uses of them in Trades and Manufactures He could have given you a compleat Dictionary of their Language understanding and speaking it as well as his Mother Tongue But his Occasions would not permit him to do more at present Yet the Civil Usage this his First-born meets with among his Countreymen may 'tis hoped oblige him to gratifie them with further Discoveries and Observations in his future Travels To conclude He has in this History given you a tast of his Observations In which most Readers though of very differing Gusts may find somewhat very pleasant to their Pallat. The Statesman Divine Physitian Lawyet Merchant Mechanick Husbandman may select something for their Entertainment The Philosopher and Historian much more I believe at least all that love Truth will be pleas'd for from that little Conversation I had with him I conceive him to be no ways prejudiced or byassed by Interest affection or hatred fear or hopes or the vain-glory of telling Strange Things so as to make him swarve from the truth of Matter of Fact And for his opportunity of being informed any one may satisfie himself when he understands his almost 20 years Abode and Converse among them His Skill in the Language and Customs of the People his way of Employment in Travelling and Trading over all Parts of the Kingdom add to this his Breeding till 19 years of Age under his Father a Captain for the East-India Company and his own Natural and acquired parts but above all his good Reputation which may be judged from the Employment That Worshipful Company have now freely bestowed upon him having made him Commander of the Tarquin Merchant and intrusted him to undertake a Voyage to Tarquin Read therefore the Book it self and you will find your self taken Captive indeed but used more kindly by the Author than he himself was by the Natives After a general view of the Sea Coasts he will lead you into the Country by the Watches through the Thorney Gates then Conduct you round upon the Mountains that Encompass and Fortifie the whole Kingdom and by the way carry you to the top of Hommalet or Adam's Peak from those he will descend with you and shew you their chief Cities and Towns and pass through them into the Countrey and there acquaint you with their Husbandry then entertain you with the Fruits Flowers Herbs Roots Plants and Trees and by the way shelter you from Sun and Rain with a Fan made of the Talipat-Leaf Then shew you their Beasts Birds Fish Serpents Insects and last of all their Commodities From hence he will carry you to Court and shew you the King in the several Estates of his Life and acquaint you with his way of Governing Revenues Treasures Officers Governors Military Strength Wars and by the way entertain you with an account of the late Rebellion against him After which he will bring you acquainted with the Inhabitants themselves whence you may know their different Humours Ranks and Qualities Then you may visit their Temples such as they are and see the Foppery of their Priests Religious Opinions and Practices both in their Worship and Festivals and afterwards go home to their Houses and be acquainted with their Conversation and Entertainment see their Housewifery Furniture Finery and understand how they Breed and Dispose of their Children in Marriage and in what Employments and Recreations they pass their time Then you may acquaint your self with their Language Learning Laws and if you please with their Magick Iugling And last of all with their Diseases Sickness Death and manner of Burial After which he will give you a full account of the Reason of his own Going to and Detainment in the Island of Ceylon and Kingdom of Conde-Uda And of all his various Conditions and the Accidents that befel him there during Nineteen years and an halfs abode among them And by what ways and means at last he made his Escape and Returned safe into England in September last 1680. Aug. 1. 1681. Robert Hooke To the Right Worshipful Sir William Thomson Knight Governor Thomas Papillon Esquire Deputy and the 24 Committees of the Honorable EAST-INDIA Company hereunder Specified Viz. The Right Honorable George Earl of Berkley The Right Honorable Iames Lord Chandois Sir Matthew Andrews Knight Sir Iohn Bancks Baronet Sir Samuel Barnardiston Baronet Mr. Christopher Boone Iohn Bathurst Esquire Sir Iosia Child Baronet Mr. Thomas Canham Collonel Iohn Clerk Sir Iames Edwards Knight Mr. Ioseph Herne Richard Hutchinson Esquire Iames Hublon Esquire Sir Iohn Lethieullier

trusty than his own People With these he often discourses concerning the Affairs of their Countreys and promotes them to places far above their Ability and sometimes their Degree or Desert And indeed all over the Land they do bear as it were a natural respect and reverence to White Men in as much as Black they hold to be inferior to White And they say the Gods are White and that the Souls of the Blessed after the Resurrection shall be White and therefore that Black is a rejected and accursed colour And as further signs of the King's favour to them there are many Privileges which White Men have and enjoy as tolerated or allowed them from the King which I suppose may proceed from the aforesaid Consideration as to wear any manner of Apparel either Gold Silver or Silk Shoes and Stockings a shoulder Belt and Sword their Houses may be whitened with Lime and many such like things all which the Chingulayes are not permitted to do He will also sometimes send â—or them into his Presence and discourse familiarly with them and entertain them with great Civilities especially white Ambassadors They are greatly chargeable unto his Countrey but he regards it not in the least So that the People are more like Slaves unto us than we unto the King In as much as they are inforced by his Command to bring us maintenance Whose Poverty is so great oftentimes that for want of what they supply us with themselves their Wives and Children are forced to suffer hunger this being as a due Tax imposed upon them to pay unto us Neither can they by any Power or Authority refuse the Payment hereof to us For in my own hearing the People once complaining of their Poverty and Inability to give us any longer our Allowance the Magistrate or Governor replied It was the King's special Command and who durst disannul it And if otherwise they could not supply us with our maintenance he bad them sell their Wives and Children rather than we should want of our due Such is the favour that Almighty God hath given Christian People in the sight of this Heathen King whose entertainment and usage of them is thus favourable If any enquire into the Religious exercise and Worship practised among the Christians here I am sorry I must say it I can give but a slender account For they have no Churches nor no Priests and so no meetings together on the Lord's Dayes for Divine Worship but each one Reads or Prays at his own House as he is disposed They Sanctifie the Day chiefly by refraining work and meeting together at Drinking-houses They continue the practice of Baptism and there being no Priests they Baptize their Children themselves with Water and use the words In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and give them Christian Names They have their Friends about them at such a time and make a small Feast according to their Ability and some teach their Children to say their Prayers and to Read and some do not Indeed their Religion at the best is but Negative that is they are not Heathen they do not comply with the Idolatry here practised and they profess themselves Christians in a general manner which appears by their Names and by their Beads and Crosses that some of them wear about their Necks Nor indeed can I wholly clear them from complyance with the Religion of the Countrey For some of them when they are Sick do use the Ceremonies which the Heathen do in the like case as in making Idols of clay and setting them up in their Houses and Offering Rice to them and having Weavers to Dance before them But they are ashamed to be known to do this and I have known none to do it but such as are Indians born Yet I never knew any of them that do inwardly in Heart and Conscience incline to the ways of the Heathen but perfectly abhor them nor have there been any I ever heard of that came to their Temples upon any Religious account but only would stand by and look on without it were one old Priest named Padre Vergonce a Genoez born and of the Iesuits Order who would go to the Temples and eat with the Weavers and other ordinary People of the Sacrifices offered to the Idols but with this Apology for himself that he eat it as common Meat and as God's Creature and that it was never the worse for their Superstition that had past upon it But however this may reflect upon the Father another thing may be related for his Honour There happened two Priests to fall into the hands of the King on whom he conferred great Honours for having laid aside their Habits they kept about his Person and were the greatest Favourites at Court The King one day sent for Vergonse and asked him if it would not be better for him to lay aside his old Coat and Cap and to do as the other two Priests had done and receive Honour from him He replied to the King That he boasted more in that old habit and in the Name of Iesus than in all the honour that he could do him And so refused the King's Honour The King valued the Father for this saying He had a pretty Library about him and died in his Bed of old Age whereas the two other Priests in the King's Service died miserably one of a Canker and the other was slain The old Priest had about Thiâ—ty or Forty Books which the King they say seized on after his Death and keeps These Priests and more lived there but all deceased excepting Vergonse before my time The King allowed them to build a Church which they did and the Portugueze assembled there but they made no better than a Bawdy-house of it for which cause the King commanded to pull it down Although here be Protestants and Papists yet here are no differences kept up among them but they are as good Friends as if there were no such Parties And there is no other Distinctions of Religion there but only Heathens and Christians and we usually say We Christians FINIS Books printed for and sold by Richard Chiswel FOLIO SPEED's Maps and Geography of Great Britain and Ireland and of Foreign Parts Dr. Cave's Lives of the Primitive Fathers Dr. Cary's Chronological Account of Anciâ—â—t time Wanly's Wonders of the little World or History of Man Sir Tho. Herbert's Travels into Persia c. Holyoak's large Dictionary Latin and English Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle of England Causâ—n's Holy Court Wilson's compleat Christian Dictionary Bishop Wilkin's Real Character or Philosophical Language Pharmacopaeia Regalis Collegii Medicorum Londinensis reformata Iudge Ione's Reports in Common â—â—w Iudge Vauâ—han's Reports in Common Law Cave Tabulae Ecclesiasticorum Scriptorum Hobbe's Leviathan Lord Bacon's Advancement of Learning Sir W. Dugdale's Baronage of England in 2 Vol. QUARTO DR Littleton's Dictionary Bishop Nicâ—olson on the Church

Catechism The Compleat Clerk History of the late Wars of New England Dr. Outram de Sacrificiis Bishop Taylor 's Disswasive from Popery Dr. Gibb's Sermons Parkeri Disputationes de Deo History of the future State of Europe Dr. Fowler 's Defence of the Design of Christianity against Iohn Bunynan Dr. Sherlock's Visitation-Sermon at Warrington Dr. West's Assize-Serm at Dorchester 1671. Lord Hollis's Relation of the Unjust Accusation of certain French Gentlemen charged with a Robbery 1671. The Magistrates Authority asserted in a Sermon by Iames Paston OCTAVO ELborow's Rationale upon the English Service-Book Dr. Burnet's Vindication of the Ordination of the Church of England Bishop Wilkin's Natural Religion Hard-castle's Christ. Geography and Arithmetick Dr. Ashton's Apology for the Honours and Revenues of the Clergy Lord Hollis's Vindication of the Iudicature of the House of Peers in the case of Skinner Iurisdiction of the House of Peers in case of Appeals Iurisdiction of the House of Peers in caâ—e of Impositions Letter about the Bishops Vote in Capital Cases Dr. Grew's Idea of Phytological History continued on Roots The Spaniards Conspiracy against the State of Venice Several Tracts of Mr. Hales of Eaton of the Sin against the Holy Ghost c. Bishop Sanderson's Life Drâ— Tillâ—â—son's Rulâ— of â—â—ith Dr. Simpson's Chymical Anatomy or â—he York-shire Spaws with a Discourse of the Original of Hot Springs and other Fountains His Hydrological Essays with an Account of the Allum-works at Whitby and some Observations about the Iaundies Dr. Cox's Discourse of the Interest of the Patient in reference to Physick and Physicians Organon Salutis Or an Instrument to cleanse the Stomach with divers New Experiments of Tobacco and Coffee with a Preface of Sir H. Blunt Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity in three Parts Allen's Discourse of two Covenants 1672. Ignatius Fuller's Sermons of Peace and Holiness Buckler of State and Iustice against France's Design of Universal Monarchy A free Conference touching the Present State of England at home and abroad in order to the Designs of France Bishop Taylor of Confirmation Mystery of Iesuitism third and fourth Parts Dr. Salmon's Dispensatory Dr. Samway's Unreasonableness of the Romanists Record of Urines Dr. Ashton's Cases of Scandal and Persecuâ—ion DUODECIMO HOdder's Arithmetick Grotius de Veritate Religionis Christianae Bishop Hacket's Christian Consolations VICESIMO QUARTO VAlentine's Devotions Guide to Heaven Books lately printed GVillim's Display of Herauldry with large Additions Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England Folio in two Volumes Dr. Burlace's History of the Irish Rebellion folio Herodoti Historiâ— Grâ— ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Fol. Cole's Latin and English Dictionary with large Additions William's Sermon before the Lord Mayor Octob. 12. 1679. Impartial Consideration of the Speeches of the Five Iesuits Executed for Treason Fol. Dr. Burnet's Relation of the Massacre of the Protestants in France Quarto His Letter written upon the Discovery of the late Plot Quarto Decree made at Rome March 2. 1679. condemning some Opinions of the Iesuits and other Casuists Quarto Tryals of the Regicides Octavo Mr. Iames Brome's Two Fast Sermons Dr. Iane's Fast Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. Mr. Iohn Iames's Visitation Sermon April 9. 1671. Quarto Mr. Iohn Cave's Fast Sermon on Ian. 30. 1679. quarto His Asâ—ize Sermon at Leicester Iuly 31. 1679. quarto His Gospel preached to the Romans Octavo Certain Genuine Remains of the Lord Bâ—con in Arguments Civil Moral Natural c. with a large Account of all his Works by Dr. Tho. Tenison Octavo Dr. Puller's Discourse of the Moderation of the Church of England Octavo Dr. Saywel's Original of all the Plots in Christendom with the Danger and Remedy of Schism Sir Iohn Munson Baronet of Supreme Power and Common Right Octavo Dr. Edw. Bagshaw's Discourses upon Select Texts Octavo Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections The Second Part. Fol. His large and exact Account of the Trial of the E. of Straf with all the Circumstances preliminary to concomitant with and subsequent upon the same to his Death Fol. Remarques relating to the state of the Church of the three first Centuries By Ab. Seller Octavo Speculum Baxterianum or Baxter against Baxter Quarto The Countrey-man's Physician For the use of such as live far from Cities or Market-Towns Octavo ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ Sermon upon the â—ast for the Fire 1680. quarto Conversion and Persecutions of Eve Cohan a Person of Quality of the Iewish Religion lately Baptized a Christian. quarto His Life and Death of the late Earl of Rochester Octavo His Fast Sermon before the Commons Decemb. 22â— 1680. His Sermon on the 30th of Ian. 168â— New England Psalms Twelves An Apology for a Treatise of Humane Reason Written by Mr. Clifford Esq Twelves The Laws of this Realm concerning Iesuits Seminary Priests c. explained by divers Iudgments and Resolutions of the Iudges with other Observations thereupon by William Cawley Esq Fol. Bishop Sanderson's Sermons with his Life Fol. Fowlis his History of Romish Conspiracies Treasons and Usurpations Fol. Markham's Perfect Horseman Octavo Dr. Parker's Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature and the Christian Religion quarto Dr. Sherlock's practical discourse of Religious Assemblies Octavo A Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's Unreasonableness of Separation Octavo Dr. Outram's Sermons Octavo FINIS A general division of the Inland Countrey Each County divided by Woods The Country Hilly but enriched with Rivers The great River Mavelagonga described Woody Where most populous and healthful The nature of the Valleys The great Hill Adams Peak described The natural Strength of this Kingdom The difference of the Seasons in this Country What Parts have most Rain The most Eminent Cities are Five Candy Nellemby Allout-neur The Country of Bintan described Badoula The Province of Ouvah Digligy the place of the Kings constant Residence Gauluda Many Ruins of Cities Anurodgburro The nature of the Northern Parts The Port of Portaloon It affords Salt Leawava affords Salt in abundance Described Their Towns how Built Many lye in Ruins and forsaken and upon what occasion The Products and Commodities of the Countrey Corn of divers sorts Rice Grows in Water Their Ingenuity in watering their Corn Lands Why they do not alwayes sow the best kind of Rice They sow at different times but reap together Their Artificial Pools Aligators harbor in them They sow Corn on the Mud. A sort of Rice that grows without Water The Seasons of Seed-time and Harvest A particular description of their Husbandry Their Ploughâ— The convenience of these Ploughs Their first Ploughing Their Banks and use of them Their second Ploughing How they prepare their Seed-Corn And their Land after it is Ploughed Their manner of sowing Their manner of Reaping They tread out their Corn with Cattel The Ceremonies they use when the Corn is to be trodden How they unhusk their Rice Other sorts of Corn among them Coracan Tanna Moung Omb. Great variety of Fruits and delicious The best Fruits where-ever they grow reserved

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