No. 39.— 1889.] account of ceylon. 



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many points, which had been expressed upon the appearance 

 of the first edition. In this edition the additional matter 

 of the first edition has been incorporated in the text, notes 

 containing additional information are given in smaller type 

 throughout the text, and the index has been amplified. The 

 illustrations are the same as in the first edition, the portrait 

 and the frontispiece, however, being re-engraved by J. A. Boner. 



The very numerous foot-notes in the second edition (which, 

 according to the editor who made them, doubled i he size of 

 the book) were principally culled from the narratives of 

 Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, a Mecklenburg nobleman, 

 and Johann von der Behr* (in India, 1644 to 1649) ; Jiirgen 

 Andersen of Sleswick (1644 to 1650) ; Volquart Iversen 

 (1655 to 1668) ; Albrecht Herport (1659 to 1668) ; and Johann 

 Jacob Merklein (1646 to 1653), an intimate friend of Saar's. 



It is from this second edition that the following translation 

 has been made. 



Although Beckmann (Litteratur der alteren Reisebeschrei- 

 bungen, II., pp. 324-7) speaks in disparaging terms of Saar's 

 narrative, it is an interesting and valuable one, giving details 

 not furnished by other writers. The dates given by him, 

 however, are not reliable : this fault being due, probably, to 

 the fact that his diary was lost at sea, as mentioned above. 



Anno 1647. 



AFTER again having spent about three months at Batavia, 

 I was ordered in September to sail, with three hundred men, 

 for the Island of Ceilon, which is distant some four hundred 

 miles. So, trusting in God, we shook out our sails on the 4th 

 of September : our ships were three, — the Banda, with the 

 Admiral on board, and two yachts, Lello and Aggerslot.^ 



On the 4th of October, after a good voyage, we arrived at 



* This writer has embodied in his book, without the slightest acknow- 

 ledgment, whole passages from Saar's narrative. (See translation of his 

 journal in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI., p. 82 et seq.~) This prac- 

 tice was only too common among travel writers of the period, 

 t Lillo ; Ahersloot (Dutch ed., 1671). 



