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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART IV
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Now, it being well towards Evening, and not having wherewithal to buy it about me, I departed home, telling the old Man, that in the Morning I would send my Boy to buy it of him.
All that Night I could take no rest for thinking on it, fearing lest I might be disappointed of it.

In the Morning as soon as it was day, I sent the Boy with a knit Cap he had made for me to buy the Book, praying in my heart for good success, which it pleased God to grant: For that Cap purchased it, and the Boy brought it to me to my great joy, which did not a little comfort me over all my Afflictions.
[Where the rest of the English were bestowed.] Having said all this concerning my Father and my Self, it will be time now to think of the rest of our poor Countreymen, and to see what is become of them.

They were carried into the County of Hotteracourly, Westward from the City of Cande, and placed singly according to the King's Order aforesaid, some four, some six Miles distant one from the other.

It was the King's Command concerning them that the People should give them Victuals, and look after them.

So they carried each man from house to house to eat, as their turns came to give them Victuals, and where they Supped there they Lodged that Night.


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