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 Proverbs

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Asian 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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EARLY notices of Ceylon in classical WritersArrian Dionysius the geographer Ovid Pto
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PART III
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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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