﻿432 ON Tin; RELIGIOX AND MANI^ERS 



the cinnamon. They proved themselves in a short 

 time so useful to the Poruiguese, who valued nothing 

 in the Island but the cinnamon, that they received 

 the title of Maha Bade, the great department, pre- 

 serving always the name of sale without the addition 

 of game. They extended over a tract of country 

 forty or fifty leagues in length. Sometime after, the 

 termination as, Mas given to many casts, such as the 

 Fanneas, Hounas, &c. and in the same way. to tlie 

 cast of Salc^ which then became Saleas, by corrup- 

 tion Tchalias. Adrian Ragia Pak.se ^NIoodilliar 

 ofSakas, has written a vTry curious work on the sub- 

 ject of his ov,-n cast, in w^hich, several interesting ac- 

 counts relative to Boudhism are also to be found. I 

 shall give, farther on, from his book, an extract 

 made by himself. 



Next to the Saleas and A'^rflre.?, are the Jagregors. 

 Their employment is to extract from the cocoa tree, 

 from the kitoul and the talgaha, a liquor with which 

 they made black sugar. — The Hounas are lime 

 makers. — The Na-candana work in gold, silver, cop- 

 per and iron. 



The Dourave or Sourare, are those who draw the 

 juice from the palm trees, in the same Mayas tlie J^o;- 

 greros. They make of this juice Souri or Foddi/a 

 liquor, w-hich they ferment and then distil, by which 

 means it becomes arrack. The Europeans c^ll them 

 S/ia?idos. 



The Radave. — Washermen of the first cast. Thev 

 ^vash for the preceding casts, hut not for the follow- 

 ing. — They are obliged to hang Mhite cloth in the 

 houses M-hich travellers stop at, Mhenever a person of 

 importance is to pass by. 



The Khniavas. — WinnoM'ing fan makers. 



The Jamale, Mho are to w^ork in the iron mines. 

 There are very fcM' people of this cast. 



The Radtas. — Washermen of the second class. 



Ferevcias 



