1The places thus marked are mentioned by Knox in the account of his escape. 2 This place is mentioned in his account, but not shown on the map. THIS Booke was wrote by mee Robert Knox (the sonn of Robert Knox who died one the Iland of Zelone) when I was aboute 39 years of Age. I was taken prisoner one Zelone, 4th Aprill, 1660. I was borne one Tower hill in London, 8th Feb: 1641. My Age when taken was 19 years: 1 Month & 27 dayes. Continewed prisoner thare 19 years 6 month 14 dayes So that I was a prisoner thare 4 Month & 17 dayes longer then I had lived in the world before, & one the 18 October 1679 God set mee free from that Captivity, being then with the Hollanders at Arepa fort to whome be all Glory & prayse. ROBERT KNOX, 1696 in London. In my passage to England from Bantam, in Anno 1679 I wrote this Booke, 3 Reasons Induced mee so to doe: first to Record Gods great mercies in so plentifully I sustaining me in the land of myne enimies in despite of those who boath invied & hated mee & sent to mee thare his most sacred Word the wholy Bible in my owne native language even whare the name of the true God is not known, & after a Detainement of 19 yeares 6 months & 14 dayes his providence so disposed of & directed mee to escape thence with the first, & Conducted me safe whome to my Native Country, all the perticulars thareof ought to be remembred by me to my lives end, for he hath fulfilled to me his promise; Deute 30 Chap, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 verses which I often called to mind in that land whare I was a Stranger to my great Comfort & Consolation, lest time should ware them out of my mind. Secondly: 2 that after my death if had died by the way my Relations might know what became of my Father (& how & after |