 | Gift books - 1843 - 346 pages
...there were some seven or eight of us met together.— They were now no more like the prisoners I had left them, but were become housekeepers and knitters of caps, and had changed their habits from breeches to clouts, like the Cingalese. They entertained me with very good cheer in their... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1843 - 378 pages
...there were some seven or eight of us met together.— They were now no more like \he prisoners I had left them, but were become housekeepers and knitters of caps, and had changed their habits from breeches to clouts, like the Cingalese. They entertained me with very good cheer in their... | |
 | sir George Barrow (bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 248 pages
...or eight met together. " We gave God thanks for his great mercies towards us. They were now no more like the prisoners I left them, but were become housekeepers...the Chingulays. They entertained me with very good cheer in their houses, beyond what I did expect." Like his fellow captives, Robert Knox made the natives... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 670 pages
...then, as we did confess, in a far better condition than we could have expected. They were now no more like the prisoners I left them : but were become housekeepers...and had changed their habit from breeches to clouts [clothes] like the Cingalese. They entertained me with very good cheer in their houses, beyond what... | |
 | English literature - 1897 - 660 pages
...then, as we did confess, in a far better condition than we could have expected. They were now no more like the prisoners I left them : but were become housekeepers...and had changed their habit from breeches to clouts [clothes] like the Cingalese. They entertained me with very good cheer in their houses, beyond what... | |
 | English literature - 1909 - 494 pages
...then, as we did confess, in a far better condition than we could have expected. They were now no more like the prisoners I left them: but were become housekeepers...and had changed their habit from breeches to clouts [clothes] like the Cingalese. They entertained me with very good cheer in their houses, beyond what... | |
 | Robert Knox - Sri Lanka - 2004 - 166 pages
...then, as we did confess, in a far better condition than we could have expected. They were now no more like the prisoners I left them : but were become housekeepers...and had changed their habit from breeches to clouts [clothes] like the Cingalese. They entertained me witli very good cheer in their houses, beyond what... | |
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like the Prisoners I left them, but were become Housekeepers, and Knitters of Caps, and had changed their Habit from Breeches to Clouts like the Chingulays. They entertained me with very good chear in their Houses beyond what I did expect. My Money at... 