en Boughs;
and so fire is put to it. After all is burnt to ashes, they sweep
together the ashes into the manner of a Sugar-loaf: and hedg the
place round from wild Beasts breaking in, and they will sow Herbs
there. Thus I saw the King's Uncle, the chief Tirinanx, who was as
it were the Primate of all the Nation, burned, upon an high place,
that the blaze might be seen a great way. If they be Noblemen, but
not of so high quality, there is only a Bower erected over them,
adorned with Plantane Trees, and green boughs, and bunches as before.

[How they bury those that that die of the Small Pox.] But if any dye
of the small Pox, be his Degree what it will, he must be Buried upon
Thorns, without any further Ceremony.

PART IV.

CHAP. I.

Of the reason of our going to Ceilon, and Detaimnent there.

[The subject of this fourth Part.] In this Fourth and last Part,
I purpose to speak concerning our Captivity in this Island, and
during which, in what Condition the English have lived there, and
the eminent Providence of God in my escape thence, together with
other matters relating to the Dutch, and other European Nations,
that dwell and are kept there. All which will afford so much variety,
and new matters, that I doubt not but the Readers will be entertained
with as much delight in perusing these things, as in any else that
have been already related. I begin with the unhappy Occasion of our
going to this Countrey.

[The occasion of their coming to Ceilon.] Anno MDCLVII. The Ann Frigat
of London, Capt. 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 S. George, on the Coast
of Cormandel, to Trade one year from Port to Port in India. Which we
having performed, as we were Lading of Goods to return for England,
being in the Road of Matlipatan, on the Nineteenth of November Anno
MDCLIX. happened such a mighty Storm, that in it several Ships were
cast away, and we forced to cut our Main-Mast by the Board, which so
disabled the Ship, that she could not proceed in her Voyage. Whereupon
Cotiar, in the Island of Ceilon, being a very commodious Bay, fit
for our present Distress, Thomas Chambers Esq; (since Sir Thomas)
the Agent at Fort S. George, ordered, That the Ship should take in
some Cloth, and go to Cotiar Bay, there to Trade, while she lay to
set her Mast. Where being arrived according to