Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox and Other Englishmen in the Island of Ceylon
Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox and Other Englishmen in the Island of Ceylon

Author: Robert Knox

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015963399

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Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox
Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox

Author: Robert Knox

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781330941133

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Excerpt from Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox: And Other Englishmen, in the Island of Ceylon; And of the Captain's Miraculous Escape, and Return to England, in September, 1680; After Detention on the Island of Nineteen Years and a Half Anno 1657, the Ann frigate, of London, Captain Robert Knox commander, on the one-and-twentieth day of January, set sail out of the Downs, in the service of the Honourable the English East India Company, bound for Fort St. George, on the Coast of Coromandel, to trade one year from port to port in India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713
Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713

Author: Gerald MacLean

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0199203180

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Explores the interactions between Britain and the Islamic world from 1558 to 1713, showing how much scholars, diplomats, traders, captives, travellers, clerics, and chroniclers were involved in developing and describing those interactions.

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies

Author: Robert Knox

Publisher:

Published: 1681

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13:

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Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.