[An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies by Robert Knox]@TWC D-Link bookAn Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies PART IV 209/241
As he prevailed with one of these Embasssadours to do for the love of a woman.
The manner of it I shall relate immediatly. There are five Embassadors whom he hath thus detained since my coming there; of each of whom I shall speak a little, besides two, whom he sent away voluntarily. [The first Embassador there detained since the Authors remembrance.] The first of these was sent up by the Hollanders some time before the Rebellion against the King; Who had detained him in the City.
After the Rebellion the King sent for him to him to the Mountain of Gauluda whither he had retreated from the Rebels.
The King not long after removed to Digligy, where he now keeps his Court, but left the Embassador at Gauluda remaining by himself, with a Guard of Soldiers.
In this uncomfortable condition, upon a dismal Mountain void of all society, he continued many days.
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