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to reddish-brown, some of a darker colour than others ; they 

 wear the hair long, the beard square." LeG. has also 

 abbreviated a good deal in the latter part of this chapter, and 

 in some places has been misled by false readings in B. He 

 has also made an Addition to this chapter. 



Chapter XVII. — Ribeiro commences this chapter with the 

 words " As we are speaking of these animals," i.e., of 

 elephants, to which he had been referring in the previous 

 chapter. LeG., however, breaks the connection between 

 chapters XVI. and XVII. by inserting chapter XVIII. between 

 them, so making chapter XIX., which treats of the animals of 

 Ceylon, follow the one on elephants. Speaking of the famous 

 elephant Ortela, Ribeiro says that he brought the King of 

 Kandy more than fifty thousand patacas yearly ; LeG. has 

 "plus de cinquante mils ecus," which Lee has by a slip 

 rendered " about 15,000 crowns." LeG. omits to record 

 the fact mentioned by Ribeiro, that every year twenty or 

 thirty elephants were sold to the Great Mogul. Ribeiro says 

 that in eight days the wild elephants become tractable. 

 LeG. shortens this period to three days. He has also 

 abbreviated considerably throughout this chapter. 



Chapter XVIII. — By the omission of some lines B. has 

 led LeG. to make the statement that even the low-caste 

 murderer of a high-caste person could not be put to death 

 unless taken within sixty days : whereas Ribeiro makes the 

 contrary assertion. In the account of the trial for adultery, 

 also, B. has omitted the words " de azeite " (" of oil "), and so 

 led LeG. to make one of the ordeals the thrusting of the arm 

 into a caldron of boiling water. LeG. also omits the 

 following statement of Ribeiro's : — " This ordeal is a barbarous 

 one ; but I heard one of our people, who was several times 

 Maralleiro, say that he has seen many women come through 

 these tortures without injury." 



Chapter XIX. — Among the animals recorded by Ribeiro 

 as being found in Ceylon are "?nacareos" ; these are omitted 

 by LeG. Ribeiro also says that the rivers yield large 

 quantities of fish and " camardes " (prawns or shrimps) ; 



