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situated at the extremity of the island and founded by the virtu- 

 ous Shaikh Nedjib* We returned at night, and on the following 

 morning the Vizier sent me some raiment, and a repast comprising 

 rice, melted butter, salt, sun-dried meat, coconuts, and honey ex- 

 tracted from the same fruit, called by the natives korbany,} signi- 

 fying 6 sugar-water.' They brought me also 100,000 cowries for 

 my expenses. After ten days there arrived a ship from Ceylon, 

 having on board some Persian and Arab fakirs who knew me and 

 told the servants of the Vizier all about me. This enhanced the 

 pleasure given by my coming. He sent for me at the commence- 

 ment of Hamazan. I found the Chiefs and Viziers already assem- 

 bled : food was served at the tables, each of which accommodated 

 a certain number of guests. The Grand Vizier made me sit by 

 his side, in company of the Kazi the Fdmelddry Vizier or 



Chief of the Treasury, and the Vizier ' Omar, the Deherd,\ i. e., 

 General of the army. The dinner of these islanders consists of 

 rice, chickens, melted butter, fish, salt, sun-dried meat, and cooked 

 bananas. After eating, they drink the coco honey mingled with 

 aromatics, which facilitates digestion. 



On the 9th of Eamazan, the son-in-law of the Vizier died. 

 His wife, the daughter of that minister, had already been married 

 to the Sultan Chihab eddtn : but neither of her husbands had 

 cohabited with her on account of her youth. Her father, the 



# This old shrine (Najibu mishitu ), it is said, may still be seen at Male. — B. 



f Korhdny: — Probably ought to be ' hdkorbany 1 equivalent to the Sinhalese 

 faakuru, 1 jaggery' : p?ni, 1 honey,' the former word appearing as acourou for 1 coco- 

 honey' in the vocabulary of Pyrard. 



% Deherd: — Cf. Pyrard, Darade Tacourou "count or duke," and Chris. 

 Dahara, 6th Vizier, " As each incumbent of the first five Vizierships died no 

 successor appears to have been appointed, and the titles thus gradually became 

 extinct. That of the 6th Vizier alone survives in the person of the son of the 

 former Dahara...... The Ddhard (Tahuru-fdnu) has no specific department of 



public business to supervise. But for a certain voice in military and municipal 

 affairs his office would be a titular sinecure." {The Mdldive Islands, Ceylon 

 gess. Pap. 1881). Cf : the Sinhalese Dovdriha (Mahav. p. 117, ll),Jbut also the 

 Persian Daroogha.—B. 



