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===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonportuguese00pier ''Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658''] by P E Pieris, Ceylon Civil Service 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023650959/page/n5 ''Ceylon and the Hollanders, 1658-1796''] by P E Peiris, Ceylon Civil Service 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31997/page/n7 Reprint, of 3rd edition [1930<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/instructionsfro00maetgoog ''Instructions from the Governor-General and Council of India to the Governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665''] Translated by Sophia Pieters. [The Government of Netherlands India]. 1908 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yFpTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East-Indies: together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and…''] by Robert Knox , a Captive there near Twenty Years. 1681 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zpZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Bungalow and the Tent, or a Visit to Ceylon''] by Edward Sullivan 1854 Google Books
*''The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon'' by Samuel W Baker [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7fsTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1854 edition] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/riflehoundinceyl00bakerich New edition 1874] Archive.org
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wHhCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon''] by Samuel White Baker 1855 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/eightyearsinceyl00bake_0 New edition 1890] with title ''Eight Years in Ceylon'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024157186 ''Fifty Years in Ceylon: an Autobiography''] by the late Major Thomas Skinner, Commissioner of Public Works Ceylon. Edited by his daughter Annie Skinner 1891 Archive.org. Born 1804, he arrived in Ceylon in 1818, aged 14, where his father was stationed. Soon he was appointed as an officer in the Ceylon Regiment. He retired from Ceylon in 1867.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaceylon00haec ''India and Ceylon''] by Ernst Haeckel, translated by Mrs S E Boggs. 1883 Archive.org. The author was professor of Zoology at the University of Jena, Thuringia, Germany. “A coherent, if not strictly literal translation” of [https://archive.org/details/indischereisebri00haec ''Indische Reisebriefe''] (''Letters of Indian Travel''). 1883 Archive.org. Most of the book is about Ceylon.
