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the pearl diver's privilege has been pointed out above by the 

 editors of L.A. 



Chapter XXIII. — By omitting a line the copyist of B. 

 has led LeG. to make Eibeiro say that the trees planted 

 round the footprint on Adam's Peak were intended to give 

 the spot a more venerable appearance ; whereas our author 

 really states that the trees made the place healthier and more 

 agreeable. The Abbe has characteristically improved on 

 Ribeiro's outspoken remarks as to the fraudulent origin of 

 the footprint. L.A. has the misprint " Pasdim corla" for 

 " Pasduncorla," as B. has it (LeG. " Pasdum corla"). For 

 the " Trequimale " and " Batecalou " of L.A., B. has " Trin- 

 quimale " and " Baticalou." 



Chapter XXIV. — LeG. makes Ribeiro say that it is a 

 singular thing that Ceylon should have for centuries con- 

 tained so many different nations, and he adds a footnote to 

 explain that these were probably the descendants of persons 

 shipwrecked on the coasts of the Island. But he has quite 

 misunderstood our author, who makes no such statement as 

 that fathered upon him, but is referring to the Veddas. 

 LeG. also makes Ribeiro say : — " There was formerly 

 near Balane a small Kingdom called Saula": here the Abbe 

 has misread the J of " Jaula " (Yala) in B. as an S, and has 

 mistakenly altered " Balave " (Walawe) to " Balane." Among 

 the places supplied with salt from the saltpans of Balave 

 Ribeiro mentions "Villacem" (Wellassa): this name LeG. 

 omits. The " pagoda " which Ribeiro speaks of at the end of 

 this chapter is not the " Wirgel-coil or temple " as Lee states, 

 but that of Kataragama : Ribeiro gives the name (" Catergao"), 

 but LeG. has failed to record it. Ribeiro, moreover, says 

 that it was guarded by " five hundred " armed men, not 

 " 1,500," as LeG. makes it. 



Book II. 



Chapter /.— In this chapter occurs a passage, one word 

 of which LeG. has most amusingly metamorphosed. In 

 LeG. we read : — " It was immediately sought to reassure 



