S Remarks on the Sequel to the [Jan. 



and the Goddo vessels of Arracan, are Monoxyla of a large size, and 

 like those mentioned in the text, are used in coasting navigation. 

 These vessels are built of several rows of planks firmly fastened together 

 with coir and ratan. Metholcl, speaking of the trade between Bengal 

 and Masulipatam early in the 1 7th century, remarks : " Once a year 

 there arriveth at Masulipatam from thence a fleet of small vessels of 

 burden about 20 tons, the planks only sewed together with cairo (a 

 kind of cord made of the rinds of cocoanuts and no iron in or about 

 them)." (Vide Purchas's Pilgrims). The voyage, however, from the 

 Coromandel Coast to the Ganges, was performed, not only in monoxyla, 

 but also in vessels called Colandiophonta, which appear to have been 

 ships of considerable burthen and constructed for sailing on the open 

 sea. Fa Hian, who visited India about the close of the 4th century of 

 our era, alludes to large-sized vessels, which, in all probability, were 

 identical with the Colandiophonta here mentioned. He states that on 

 proceeding to To-mo-li-ti,* a city situated at the confluence of the 

 Ganges with the sea, he found a number of merchants embarking in 

 large ships to sail to the south-west ; that he took a passage in one 

 bound for Ceylon : and that the wind being favourable, the north-west 

 monsoon having set in, he arrived there in fourteen days. 



The region called Desarene (Awapv^v) situated across a bay and east- 

 ward of Masalia, is supposed by some, to be northern Circars — by 

 others, to be Orissa. That it is not the latter province, however, is 

 certain from the fact of Utcalaor Orissa, and Desarana or Desarene being 

 mentioned as different countries in the Brahmanda Purana ; both being 

 included with Traipura or Tipperah among the kingdoms belonging to 

 the empire of Bharata, and situated behind the mountains of Vindhya.f 

 The term Desarene on the supposition that it is a compound of the 

 words des a country, and aruni a wilderness or forest, might be regard- 

 ed as referring to the extensive tract of jungle on the southern part of 

 Bengal, viz., the Sunderbunds bordering on the sea. Arrian, however, 



* To-mo-li-ti is supposed to be the Tamaralipta of the Mahabharat or the Tama- 

 lipti of the Puranas. It is regarded as the modern Tumlook (Vide Professor Wil- 

 son's Account of Fa Hian's Travels in the Journal of the Royal As. Society, No. 

 IX. page 138.) 



f " Wilford's Essay on the Sacred Isles of the West." As. Res. Vol. VIIT. page 

 337. 



