236 



JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XL 



From this remark it may be gathered that Saar's health after 

 his return to Europe was not good,— a natural consequence 

 of his wounds and hard service of many years in the tropics. 

 He died young ; his portrait of 1661 gives his age as 36, and 

 in 1672 he had been dead for some time. 



Saar's work was published at Nuremberg in 1662 under 

 the title of " Johann Jacob Saars Ost-Indianische Funfzehen- 

 Jahrige Kriegs-Dienst," &c. It is an oblong volume of 12, 

 50, 170, 20, and 12 pages ; with portrait of the author, by 

 V. Sommer, frontispiece, and 15 plates. The work seems to 

 have been edited by Daniel Wulffer, a clergyman in Nurem- 

 berg,* who took the opportunity to prefix a laboured and 

 learned disquisition on the question whether it was right for 

 Christians to engage in the conquest and subjugation of 

 heathen nations. This edition is dedicated to the Burgomaster 

 and Council of Nuremberg ; and in an appendix the author 

 gives additional information from memory, and quotations 

 from other writers. 



In 1671 a somewhat abbreviated Dutch translation of Saar's 

 work (by J. H. Glazemaker) appeared at Amsterdam, the 

 additional matter in the original being embodied in the text 

 of this translation, which is illustrated by four plates, different 

 from those in the German edition. The translator has also 

 re-arranged the chapters (making 23 against 17 in the 

 original), to which he has put sub-headings, and has omitted 

 the prefatory matter and the index. 



In 1672 a new and revised edition of the German original 

 was published in Nuremberg in folio form, 46, 168, 16 pages. 

 This edition was also edited by Wulffer, who substituted for 

 Saar's dedication another, addressed to Georg Fierer, a 

 banker in Nuremberg. Fierer, as appears from the preface, 

 had travelled a good deal in foreign countries, had read much, 

 and was able to suggest many of the foot-notes to the second 

 edition. This support was the more welcome to Wulffer, 

 as it helped to silence the mistrust of Saar's statements on 



* Born 1617, died 1683. 



