No. 35.— 1887.] 



NOTES ON CEYLON. 



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Taingapatam. Here end his Indian experiences ; and all 

 that we know of his return voyage is that it took place in 

 1693, when he called at Colombo, and that he took with 

 him an orang-utan, which, however, did not survive the 

 journey. I should have mentioned that he was accompanied 

 in his travels by his wife. 



With regard to the notes on Ceylon, it will be seen that 

 Dr. Daalmans had a very poor opinion of this Island ; and 

 also that the fact of his being in the service of the Dutch 

 did not blind him to the injustice and cruelty which un- 

 happily characterised many of their dealings with both 

 the Portuguese and the Sinhalese. I have attempted, in 

 my translation, to preserve as much as possible the 

 spirit of the original, and have therefore in many cases 

 sacrificed elegance of diction to faithfulness. I have retained 

 the writer's spellings of the names of places, as these have 

 an antiquarian interest ; and for the same reason I have 

 taken over verbatim a number of foreign words used 

 by him. Finally, I have added notes chiefly explanatory of 

 these words and of other matters touched on by the 

 writer. 



D. F. 



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After this we came to Ceilon, where I went to the 

 Governor, who received me courteously. Several houses 

 here had fallen in through the terrible rain. The Governor 

 wished to ride with me to Malluanen, 4 five miles from 

 Colombo, which I was by no means unwilling to do. 

 We therefore left Colombo at 3 o'clock in the morning. 



The Governor was carried in a pallenquin by 8 slaves, 

 who went forward at a great rate. For 12 other slaves ran 

 beside the pallequin to relieve the others by turns : for 

 they do not go further with it than a pistol shot, and then 

 the others know how to take their places with rapidity, so 

 that there is scarcely any stoppage. There followed also 

 three other pattenquins, in which the daughters of the 

 Governor and other ladies were carried. Captain Goedkind 



