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.