S I q O u. 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OP THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1886. 



VOLUME IX. 



No. 88. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY 



The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History, 

 Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present and former 

 Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate and 

 Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." 



COLOMBO: '±1^ 

 GEORGE J. A. SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



1888. 



