History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815: With Characteristic Details of the Religion, Laws, and Manners of the People, and a Collection of Their Moral Maxims, and Ancient ProverbsAsian Educational Services, 2003 - 341 pàgines The Principal Object Of The Book Was To Acquant The Reader With The Civil And Military Transaction, The Religion And Manners Of The People. Also Gives A Brief Sketch Of The Natural History Of The Country. |
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... experienced ; detail of his first interviews with the king ; suspected of being a Portuguese . The King of Baticalo increases his troops upon the coast . The Dutch re- peatedly disappointed in the completion of their lading . Spilbergen ...
... experienced ; detail of his first interviews with the king ; suspected of being a Portuguese . The King of Baticalo increases his troops upon the coast . The Dutch re- peatedly disappointed in the completion of their lading . Spilbergen ...
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... experience from the emperor . Gule Gedde returns to Denmark . The Portuguese erect a fort in Trincomalee ; another at Baticalo . Constantine de Saa takes the field ; his miserable end CHAP . XI . Death of Cenuwieraat ; division of his ...
... experience from the emperor . Gule Gedde returns to Denmark . The Portuguese erect a fort in Trincomalee ; another at Baticalo . Constantine de Saa takes the field ; his miserable end CHAP . XI . Death of Cenuwieraat ; division of his ...
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EARLY notices of Ceylon in classical WritersArrian Dionysius the geographer Ovid Pto | 1 |
PART III | 2 |
CHAP II | 12 |
CHAP III | 31 |
CHAP VI | 69 |
CHAP VII | 75 |
Contention amongst the nobles after the death of Don John Donna Catharina seizes the govern | 96 |
CHAP X | 103 |
CHAP XXXI | 199 |
Of their laws and language | 204 |
CHAP XXXIV | 217 |
Concerning their learning astronomy and art magic | 222 |
CHAP XXXV | 224 |
Of their sickness death and burial | 230 |
Of the reason of our going to Ceylon and detainment there | 238 |
How we were carried up the country and disposed of there and of the sickness sorrrow | 246 |
CHAP XI | 109 |
Being in the Malabar territories how they encountered two men and what passed between | 112 |
CHAP XIII | 115 |
CHAP XIV | 118 |
Concerning the inhabitants of this island | 121 |
CHAP XV | 122 |
CHAP XVI | 131 |
CHAP XVIII | 141 |
Of their religion gods temples priests | 143 |
Concerning their worship and festivals | 152 |
CHAP XX | 154 |
CHAP XXI | 161 |
Concerning their religious doctrines opinions and practices | 166 |
Concerning their houses diet housewifery salutation apparel | 173 |
CHAP XXV | 178 |
Of their lodging bedding whoredom marriages and children | 183 |
CHAP XXVII | 187 |
Of their employments and recreations | 192 |
CHAP XXX | 193 |
CHAP XLII | 256 |
lived after my fathers death and of the condition of the rest of the English and | 257 |
CHAP XLIV | 263 |
Concerning some other Englishmen detained in that country | 269 |
Concerning the means that were used for our deliverance and what happened to us in the | 278 |
Bay of Condatchy Great assemblage of persons for the pearl fishery Banks where the oysters | 279 |
CHAP XLIX | 285 |
A continuation of the authors condition after the rebellion Purchaseth a piece of land | 286 |
Columbo The fort houses harbour Healthiness of the climate The pettah and suburbs | 292 |
A return to the rest of the English with some further accounts of them and some further dis | 296 |
CHAP LII | 298 |
How the author had like to have been received into the kings service and what means he used | 304 |
Some Singalese proverbs which are contained in the book Wessakare Satake or the sayings of | 308 |
How the author began his escape and got onward of his way about an hundred miles | 316 |
Short lessons and moral maxims of the Singalese and Malabars taken from the Malabar book | 319 |
The authors progress in his flight from Anarodgburro into the woods until their arrival in | 327 |
CHAP LVII | 338 |
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