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JOURNAL, K.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Yol. X. 



Chapter VIII. — This is a very short chapter, and LeG. 

 has given the general sense of it ; but he has made one 

 serious blunder. Ribeiro says that D. Hieronimo de Azevedo, 

 after his entry into Kandy, " was lucky in being able to 

 retire, with the loss of three hundred Portuguese and many 

 Lascarins of the Emperor's dominions," whereas LeG. 

 states that " he thought himself fortunate in being able to 

 retire with only three hundred Portuguese and some Las- 

 carins of the Emperor of Ceylon." (Lee has " Cotta.") 

 Le Grand's addition to this chapter is three times the length 

 of the latter. In it he says that Dom Joao " reigned more 

 than thirteen years after the death of Pedro-Lopes de Souza," 

 whereas in a note to the chapter itself (which Lee omits) he 

 says, " He lived nearly ten more years after this," that is, 

 after the defeat of D. Hieronimo. LeG. says that Henar 

 Pandar on coming to the throne took the name of " Cam-Apati- 

 Maha-d' 'Ascin" which, Lee says in a note, " is not to be 

 found among Singhalese authors, and its orthography is not 

 in any manner to be twisted into a Singhalese name." Le 

 Grand has here copied from Baldseus, who in chapter VIII. of 

 his work on Ceylon makes the above statement, and also gives 

 the meaning of three-fourths of this title, the correct spell- 

 ing of which is, I suppose, " Kshamdpati Mahddarsin." 



Chapter IX. — This gives an account of the death of the 

 Emperor Dom Joao, after donating the Island of Ceylon to the 

 King of Portugal. Ribeiro states that the emperor's nephew 

 was sent to Portugal and ordained as a priest, being granted 

 an allowance for his support ; and he adds in paren- 

 theses : — " We knew this Prince at one time, and called him 

 ' de Telheiras,' from the place where he resided, and in which 

 locality he founded an Oratory for the Brothers of St. Francis." 

 LeG. enlarges this somewhat, and then fathers upon 

 Ribeiro the f oUowing statement : — " I have seen the Act of 

 Foundation, which is of the month of June of the year 1639, 

 and his will, which is of the month of March, 1642. 

 Although a Priest, he had by Susanne d'Abreu two daughters, 

 both of whom were Nuns of the Cordeliers at Via Longa. 



