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INDEX. 



Phoenicians, their knowledge of Ceylon, i. 550, 



571. 5ee Tarshish ; Sanchoniathon. 

 Physical geography, i. 1. 

 Piagalla, temple at, i. 17 n. 

 Pigeons, i. 173. See Birds. 



Lady Torrington's pigeon, i. 174, 181. 



Pihiti, the northern division of Ceylon, i. 337, 



383. 

 Pilame Taliwe', ii. 76. 



his treachery, ii. 81. 



his death, ii. 87. 



Pingo, i. 114, 497. See Areca. 



Pinguicula vulgaris, its economic use, ii. 1 59 n. 



Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels, ii. 47 w. 



'H niiTT?; 2 '(^J2, ii. 135. 



Pittakatayan, i. 515; ii. 561. 



Planaria, i. 245, See Radiata. 



Pliny, speaks of the " spicy breezes" of India, 



i. 4, 497. 



■ error as to the size of Ceylon, i. 9. 



his account of Ceylon, i. 555. 



of the Veddahs, i. 558, 595, ib. n. 



Plumbago, i. 31. 



Poeliantivo, the island of tamarinds, ii. 456. 



Poeppig, on the perfumed winds off Cuba, i. 4. 



Poggio Bracciolini, i. 638. 



Point de Galle. See Galle. 



Point Pedro, ii. 535. 



Pollanan-ua, origin of the city, i. 400 ii, 409; 



ii. 583. 



made the capital, i. 414. 



beauty of the site and ruins, ii. 583. 



plan of, ii. 585. 



palace, ii. 587. 



great stone slab, ii. 588. 



various buildings, ii. 589. 



dagobas, ii. 591. 



Jayta-wana-rama, ii. 592. 



its roof, ii. 593. 



Gal-wihara, ii. 595. 



Polyandry, its origin and prevalence, ii. 429. 

 inferentially reprobated in ilahawanso, 



ii. 430. 



winked at by Buddhist priests, ib. 



existed in ancient Britain, ii. 429 n. 



Polybius' account of fishes on dry land, i. 228. 

 Pombal, Marquis de, his collection of Portu- 

 guese despatches to India, Introd. xxviii. 

 " Poonatoo," ii. 525. 

 Population of Ceylon, ancient, i. 421,422. 



means of preserving, i. 423. 



causes of dispersion, i. 424. 



its decay, ib. iL 434. 



means of restoring, ii. 435. 



in 1858, i. 53. 



Porcacchi Isolario, i. 9 «., 633. 



Porcupine, i. 150. 



Portuguese, their evil policy in India, ii. 3. 



discovery ship, ib. 



their historians, ii. 4. 



appear in Ceylon a.d. 1505, i. 418, 625, 



633; ii. 5, 7. 



Portuguese, did not go for cinnamon, ii. 5. 



map of Ceylon, ib. n. 



vie in trade with the Moors, i. 633; ii. 9. 



resistance against, excited by the Moors, 



ii. 9. 



fortify Colombo, ii. 10. 



teach the Singhalese the art of war, ii. 



11, 12. 



gain nominal allegiance of king, ii. 14. 



establish Franciscan order in Ceylon, ii. 1 5. 



succeed to the dominions of the king, ii. 25. 



their cruelties, ii. 19 n, 23. 



• receive allegiance of Singhalese chiefs, 



ii. 25. 



the nature of their trade, ii. 26. 



destroy the sacred tooth, ii. 29. 



sack and finally annex Jaffna, ii. 30. 



expelled by the Dutch, ii. 42. 



Portuguese words still in use, ii. 70 n. 

 Potoor, extraordinary well, i. 21, ib. n; ii. 536. 

 Prakrama Bahu, his reign, i. 404. 



his character and conquests, i. 405. 



his cities and public works, i. 407. 



his foreign expeditions, i. 410. 



Prasii, i. 313. 



Pridham, C, his work on Ceylon, 1849, Introd. 



xxxii. 11. 

 Priests, Buddhist, their numbers, i. 349. 



their vows and poverty, i. 350. 



their robes, i. 351. 



Catina dhwana, ib. n. 



their influence over the crown, i. 362. 



their first endowment with lands, i. 303. 



forbiddtn, — men in general advised not — 



to take away life, i. 544 n. 

 Prinsep, J., on fish falling from clouds, i. 312. 

 his labours in conjunction with Tumour, 



i. 312«. 

 Pseudo-Callisthenes. See Palladius. 

 Pterophorus. See Insects, i. 267. 

 Ptolemies. See Egypt. 

 Ptolemy, distinguishes the Gobbs (estuaries) of 



Ceylon from the Bays, i. 47 n., 559 /i. 



his account of Ceylon, i. .^59. 



his map of the island, i. 559 n., 560 n. 



a new map on his data, i. 561. 



Purchas, his pilgrimage, describes Ceylon, i. 1 n. 

 Pusilawa, ii. 249, 257. 



tea grown at, ii. 251. 



morning in the forest, ii. 253. 



noon in the forest, ii. 254. 



evening and night, ii. 255 — 257. 



Puswael, gigantic pod, i. 105. 

 Putlam, ii. 627. 

 Python, swimming, i. 194. 

 its great size, i. 196. 



Quails which fed the Isr.ielites. See Salu. 

 Quartz, rose-coloured, i. 33. 

 Queens of Ceylon, i. 377. 

 Quicksilver found in Ceylon, i. 29 «. 



