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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART IV
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And we seemed to lament for our hard fortune, that we were not ready to go upwards with them in their good company: for we were Neighbours dwelling in one and the same County.

However we bid them carry our commendations to our Countrymen the English, with whom they were acquainted at the City, and so bad them farewel.

And glad we were when they were gone from us.

And the next day in the morning we resolved, God willing, to set forward.

But we thought not fit to tell our Host, the Governor, of it, till the very instant of our departing, that he might not have any time to deliberate concerning us.
That Night he being disposed to be merry, sent for people whose trade it is to dance and shew tricks, to come to his house to entertain him with their Sports.


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