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The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies, by Robert Knox This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: 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 Author: Robert Knox Release Date: December 13, 2004 [EBook #14346] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ISLAND CEYLON *** Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Jeroen Hellingman, and the PG Distributed Proofreaders Team. 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. Illustrated with Figures, and a Map of the ISLAND. By ROBERT KNOX, a Captive there near Twenty Years. LONDON, Printed by Richard Chiswell, Printer to the ROYAL SOCIETY, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1681. At the Court of Committees for the East-India Company the 10th of August, 1681. We Esteem Captain Knox a Man of Truth and Integrity, and that his Relations and Accounts of the Island of Ceylon (which some of us have lately Perused in Manuscripts) are worthy of Credit, and therefore encouraged him to make the same Publick. Robert Blackbourne, Secretary. By Order of the said Court. August 8. 1681. Mr. Chiswell, I Perused Capt. Knox's Description of the Isle of Ceylon, which seems to be Written with great Truth and Integrity; and the Subject being new, containing an Account of a People and Countrey little known to us; I conceive it may give great Satisfaction to the
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