This is an attempt to supply, to the best of my ability, what has been a "long felt want", viz., a connected and complete, yet concise, account of the Dutch occupation of Ceylon, which extended from A.D. 1640 to 1796 - a period of 156 years. During more than a century of the British rule in Ceylon numerous books have been written under the title of "histories", "accounts", or "descriptions" of the Island, from which the ...
