216 Sir Joun D’Orxy’s Sketch of the 
The chief divides it amongst his people, nearly in the proportion of six 
ridi to each proprietor, one ammonam of land, and the value of a few ammo- 
nams to the Walanbadde Madige people mentioned below. 
They purchase the areka in small quantities from the inhabitants at 
such prices as they are able, which are necessarily low, because the sale 
of this. article to other traders, and the exportation, are strictly pro- 
hibited. 
They convey it by bullocks to Ruanwelle, and selling it at the best 
prices for the Columbo market, account for the whole profits to the Royal 
Treasury. 
They also receive money from their chief, and deliver to him the profit 
upon an uncertain quantity of areka, varying from twenty to fifty ammo- 
nams per annum. 
It is said that in two former years with the assistance of many other villages, 
1,000 and 500 ammonams respectively were collected, and the profits paid 
into the Treasury, but with much opposition and difficulty, which, with 
the intervention of other services, occasioned a reduction to the usual 
quantity. 
These JJadige people are also obliged to perform other carriage service 
when required, as the conveyance of grain from the royal villages, receiving, 
however, one Jaha for each bullock-load; and they occasionally do the same 
for their chief. 
The following people are Moor-men, and are called Walanbadde Madige, 
because they possess no service lands, but fields of small extent, which they 
have brought into cultivation from the estates of others: Dumbulawawe, 
containing one Mohandiram and six or eight people ; Hingula, containing 
one Mohandiram and six or eight people. 
Hence they are called upon to perform very little service, but, having 
bullocks, are not entirely exempt. 
They receive money, as above stated, for a small quantity of meee and 
account for the profits to the Treasury and to their chief. 
They are also employed in the conveyance of grain, &c., if required, 
two or three times in the year: the people of Dumbulawawe usually for’ 
the King, and those of Hingula for the chief; but they are not liable to 
perform any of the duties above specified. 
The chief of the JMJadige receives also the following emoluments, 
and Ande mullettu fields of three ammonams, at Walagama, are cultivated 
