54St NOTES. 



I had collected at a considerable expense, were lost in 1809, in the Lady Jane Dundas East- 

 Indiaman, on board of which ship I had taken my passage for England. 



(U). The maritime laws and usages which prevail amongst the Hindu and Mohammedan 

 mariners and traders who frequent Ceylon, of which I made a complete collection while pre- 

 siding in the Vice Admiralty Court of that island, may be classed under four heads : First, 

 those which prevail amongst the Hindu mariners and traders who carry on trade in small 

 vessels between the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, and the island of Ceylon ; secondly, those 

 which prevail amongst the Mohammedan mariners and traders of Arab descent who carry on 

 trade in small vessels between the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, and the island of Ceylon ; 

 thirdly, those which prevail amongst the Arab mariners and traders who carry on trade in very 

 large vessels between the eastern coasts of Africa, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and the island 

 of Ceylon ; fourthly, those which prevail amongst the Malay mariners and traders who carry 

 on trade between the coast of Malacca, the eastern islands, and Ceylon. 



The first are in some degree modified by the tenets of the Hindu religion and by Hindu law. 

 The second, the third, and the fourth, are modified in a great degree by the tenets of the 

 Mohammedan religion, and by Mohammedan law. 



