2-701-134 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

A Usurper Stoned to Death?', The Rajah of Kandy presides over a punishment: death by stoning of a half buried prisoner; from 'Beschreibung der Ost-Indischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel... als auch der Insel Zeylon?; pub. 1672 (engraving). A True and Exact Description of The Most Celebrated East-Indian Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel and also of the Isle of Ceylon; Father Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672) was a missionary & representative of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon for 10 years.