374 Journal of the Asiatic Soc of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 1922.) 
tarius MS., which I have edited, was not entered in the new 
type-written catalogue. 
To return to the new quotation from Monserrate which we 
have discovered in Wilford, I believe that Wilford is correct in 
identifying Monserrate’s Tybreri or Tybrerae with the people 
of Tippera. I do not know, however, what river corresponds 
to the river of Balsar. If Wilford is right in identifying Modo- 
Galica or Modo-Galenca with Madhya-Kalinga or the Middle 
Kalinga, the derivation of Cock Island, or Cock’s Island, Coxe 
Island, now merged with Dog’s Island into Saugor Island at 
the mouth of the Hugli, would be thrown a great deal further 
back than Ilha de Gale, Ilha de Gallo, Ilha de Galinha. In his 
(Mem. A.S.B., Vol. III, No. 9, at the end) Father 
Monserrate calls it Gallorum Insula, which would indeed corre- 
spond to Cock’s Island, whereas Ilha de Galinha would mean 
Hen’s Island. Ilha de Galinha would, however, have been a 
corruption natural to the Portuguese for an island inhabited by 
the Modo-Galica or Modo-Galenca. And so, the derivation 
sought by Sir R. C. Temple (Cf. Thomas Bowrey’s Geographical 
Account of Countries round the Bay of Bengal, 1669-1679, p. 210 
n.) in Gallinhas del Mar,! a sobriquet for the timorous mixed off- 
spring of the Portuguese in India, would appear far-fetched. 
Besides, the sobriquet must be later in date than the first 
Portuguese name for Cock’s Island. 
Goethal’s Indian Library, 
St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. 
January 27, 1922. 


| Del is not the usual possessive case of the definite article in 
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