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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807. Excerpt: ... CHARTER VII. KNOX'S ACCOUNT OF THE KING AND GOVERNMENT OF CANDY IN THE YEAR 1681. THE KING'S GREAT OFFICERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE PROVINCES. MILITARY STRENGTH, AND MODE OF WARFARE. Knox, speaking of the King of Candy, says, "Rajah Singa is his name, which signifies the lion King."--" On his head he wears a cap with four corners like a Jesuit's, three tier high, and a feather standing upright before, like that in the head of a fore-horse in a team, a long band hanging down his back after the Portuguese fashion, his doublet after so strange a shape that 1 cannot well describe it, the body of one, and the sleeves of another colour. He wears long breeches down to his ankles, shoes and stockings. He doth not always keep to one fashion, but changes as his fancy leads him; but always when he goes abroad, his sword hangs by his side in a belt over his shoulder, which no Chingulays dare wear, only white men may: a gold hilt, and scabbard mostly of beaten gold. Commonly he holdeth in his hand a small cane, painted of divers colours, with a head of gold, and towards the lower end set round about with such stones as he hath and pleaseth. "His palace at Digligy-neur is inclosed by a clay wall, and thatched to prevent the clay being melted by the rains. Within this wall it is all full of houses, most of which are low and thatched; but some are two stories high, and tyled very handsomely, with open galleries for air, rayled about with turned banisters, one ebony, and one painted, but not much prospect, standing between two hills. And, indeed, the King lives there not so much for pleasure as security. The palace itself hath many large and stately gates two-leaved: these gates, with their posts, excellently carved; the iron work thereunto belonging, as bolts and locks, all...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154228199
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154228193
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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