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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 Author's - Miraculous Escape by Robert Knox
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excessive Sorrow. His Discourse and Charge to his Son before
his Death. His Death, and Burial. The Place where he lies. Upon
the Captain's Death a Message sent from Court to his Son.


CHAP. III.


How I lived after my Father's Death, And of the Condition of the rest
of the English: and how it fared with them. And of our Interview.

His chief Imployment is Reading: He looseth his Ague: How he
met with an English Bible in that Country: Struck into a great
Passion at the first sight of the Book: He casts with himself
how to get it: Where the rest of the English were bestowed:
Kept from one another a good while, but after permitted to
see each other: No manner of Work laid upon them: They begin
to pluck up their hearts: What course they took for Cloths:
Their Fare: What Employment they afterwards followed: How the
English domineered: What Satisfaction one of them received
from a Potter. A scuffle between the English and Natives. The
Author after a year sees his Countreymen. Their Conference and
Entertainment. He consults with his Countreymen concerning
a future livelihood. The difficulty he met with in having
his Rice brought him undressed. He reasons with the People
about his Allowance. Builds him an House. Follows Business and
thrives. Some attempted running away, and were catched. Little
encouragement for those that bring back Run-awayes.


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