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JOURNAL R. A. S CEYLON. 



[extra btos; 



should take with him two cloths. He makes obeisance before the 

 Sultana and throws down one of these cloths. Then he salutes her 

 Vizier, who is also her husband, Djemal eddin, and throws down 

 the other. The army of this Queen consists of about a thousand 

 men of foreign birth; some of the soldiers are natives. They come 

 every day to the hall of audience to salute her and then go home. 

 Their pay is in rice, supplied to them at the bender ( v. s. } p. 10} 

 every month. When the month is ended, they present themselves 

 at the audience hall, and, saluting the Vizier, say, " Convey our 

 respects (to the Queen) and inform her that we have come to re- 

 quest our pay." Thereupon the necessary orders are given in 

 their favour. The Kazi and ministers, who have with the people 

 the title of Viziers, also present themselves every day at the 

 audience hall. They make a salutation, and go away after the 

 eunuchs have transmitted their respects to the Queen. 



Op the Ministers and their conduct of Government. 



The people of the Maldives call the Grand Vizier, the Sultana's 

 Lieutenant, Calaky* ; and the Kazi Fandayarkdlou. f All judg- 

 ments are in the jurisdiction of the Kazi: he is more highly 

 esteemed by the people than all other men, and his orders are 

 executed as well as those of the Sultan and even better. He sits upon 

 a carpet in the audience hall: he possesses three islands J, whose 

 revenue he places to his private account, after an ancient custom 



* Calahy : — ? Pers. Pyrard has Quilague '* regent elect for the kingdom 

 to act in absence of the Sultan" (Gray). [The title Kilage-fdnu is not restricted 

 to one grandee in the realm. At least three living Maldivian nobles have a 

 right to the designation. — B.~] 



j- FandoAjarhdlou : — i. e. Fadiydru Kaloge-fdnu (Pyrard, Pandiare ; Chris, 

 Fandiarhee) the Chief Priest or Kazi. Cf : T. Pdndiya.-—B. 



% Corresponding with nindagam lands in Ceylon, the tenure of which is 

 thus explained in Sir J. D'Oyley's M.S. " Constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom," 

 a copy of which is in my possession : — ' Nindagama. — A village which, for the 

 time being, is the entire property of the grantee, or temporary chief ; definitely 

 granted by the king with saunas, it becomes paraveny, &c.,' p. 144. A ' gallat 

 gamd in the lower part of the Four Korales, Three Korales, and in parts of 

 fcabaragaumwa is a similar tenure. 



