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One of them was Abbess when I went there on the 19th of 

 January, 1693. He gives orders in his will that his Cousin 

 D. Philippe, Canon of Coimbra, shall be interred on one side 

 of the Altar, and himself on the other ; and names as execu- 

 tor of his will one D. Jacques of Ceylon, also a relative of his." 

 No wonder that Lee was mystified by this passage, and to the 

 date 1693 appended the note : — " There must be an error in 

 this date, as this work is stated in the title-page to have been 

 presented to the king of Portugal by Ribeyro in 1685." 



Chapter X. — Ribeiro states that the territory bequeathed 

 by the Emperor Dorn Joao to the King of Portugal contained 

 21,873 villages; but LeG. makes the number 21,863. 

 There are numerous details omitted by LeG. For instance, 

 Ribeiro enumerates the articles which the " mayors " 

 of villages were bound to supply to the Emperor's troops 

 when on march, viz., " chickens, hens, butter, kids, cows, and 

 pigs." LeG. also fails to apprise us of the interesting fact 

 that "all these villages have coolies [L.A. u Guiles" B. " cules"~\ y 

 who are for the carting," &c. In the list of trades, &c, Ribeiro 

 mentions " mainatos " (washermen), "jagreiros " (jaggery- 

 makers), "pachas" (classed with sandal -makers and barbers, 

 as of low caste *), " cornacas " (elephant-keepers), and " chalids" 

 all of which we fail to find recorded in LeG. In the case 

 of the " cornacas " this is due to the omission of some lines in 

 B. The total weight of cinnamon obtained yearly by the 

 King of Ceylon is said by LeG. to have been 10,565 

 quintals : the figures in Ribeiro are 10,575. According to 

 Ribeiro, the overseer of the gem-diggers in Sabaragamuwa 

 was called " Vidana das agras " : this appears in LeG. as 

 " Vidava dasagras" the printer having misread the n of the 

 first word as a u ; Lee translates the title as " vidahn 

 aratchy," which is hardly justifiable. To this chapter also 

 LeG. has appended an Addition. 



1 dough has " Pachaya, a man of a degraded tribe, a low caste man." 

 (See also chapters XI. and XVI. of Ribeiro.) 



