30 . Account or a Discovery oF A 
evening, sand/iya; the festivals observed in the several months of the 
year, &c,'&os, 
No, 8. 
In five sections placed under the same cover as the foregoing, but not 
belonging to it, being written less closely and on older paper, is found 
another part of the‘ Zozochi Kormo Bédo :”—it is. defective at the 
commencement andends with the fifth book, ‘5 Livre.’ The abstract 
at the end of the first chapter it contains is—‘* Du Zozochs Kormo 
‘¢ Bédo, refutation de.ce que sé pratique dans le mois achino et en particu- 
¢ lier du sacrifice de Durcua.’’?> It treats. of the various sacrifices and 
offerings to Durex, Cari, &c. &c. 
Havine afforded.a general view of the contents of these manuscripts, 
I shall add'a few. conjectures, very imperfect certainly, as to:their. origing 
and some remarks on the mode in which the forgery has been executed.— 
There prevails among the more respectable native Christians of Pondi= 
cherry an opinion, on what authority founded I know not, that these 
books were written by Rossrtus pz Nosttizus:* this personage, of the 
Society of Jesus, and the founder of the Madura mission, long the ‘most 
flourishing of any that ever existed in India, is well known both to 
* Roxertus pr Nostzursus or Rogert pe Nosixis, 2 near relation of his holiness Marcrnivs the II. 
and the nephew of Cardinal Brriarmun, founded the Madura mission about the year 1620. See note A, 
