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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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They confer together about the lawfulness of marrying with the
Native women. He resolves upon a single life. What Employments
they follow. The respect and credit they live in. A Chingulay
punished for beating an English man. An English man preferred
at Court. Some English serve the King in his Wars. Who now
live miserably. He returns to speak of himself. Plots and
consults about an Escape. A description of his House. He
takes up a new Trade and thrives on it. His Allowance paid
him out of the Kings Store-Houses.


CHAP. VIII.

How the Author had like to have been received into the Kings Service,
and what Means he used to avoid it. He meditates and attempts an
Escape but is often prevented.

He voluntarily forgoes his Pension. Summoned before the
King. Informed that he is to be preferred at Court: But is
resolved to refuse it. The answer he makes to the Great Man:
Who sends him to another Great Officer: Stayts in that City
expecting his Doom. Goes home, but is sent for again. Having
escaped the Court-Service, falls to his former course of life:
His Pedling forwarded his Escape. The most probable course
to take was Northwards. He and his Companion get three days
Journey Northwards; But return back again: Often attempt to
fly this way, but still hindred. In those Parts is bad water,
but they had an Antidote against it. They still improve in
the knowledg of the Way. He meets with his Black Boy in these
Parts, Who was to guide him to the Dutch: But disappointed. An
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