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there were not houses to lodge all the garrison, the greater 

 part of the soldiers were in wretched huts easy to burn. 

 But all this had no great effect." LeG. has also considerably 

 abbreviated the speech of the German officer, and his 

 version of it is very incorrect. LeG., following B., says that 

 the assault on Xegombo lasted from 11 A.M. to 11 P.M. : 

 L.A. says from 11 A.M. to 2 p.m. For the "Val dos Reis " of 

 L.A., B. and LeG. have " Valdereis." The " Verganpetim" of 

 L.A. is in B. " Vargempetim," and in LeG. " Vaigampetim." 

 Lee has rendered it " Waygampittia," which is incorrect ; the 

 place referred to is Weligampitiya, between Colombo and 

 Negombo. 



Chapter XVI. — For the " Bebiliagama " of L.A., B. and LeG. 

 have "Bitiagama." 



Chapter XVIL — For " Lahoa " (Alawwa) Le Grand has 

 " Lagoa," he having misread B., where the h is written very 

 like a g. Ribeiro says : — "At Caliture a Captain of infantry 

 was in charge with his company ; and likewise another in a 

 stockade made of wood at Canasture, where we had a magazine, 

 in which were stored the provisions and ammunition that 

 came by the river for the supply of the camp at Manicavare." 

 This LeG. renders: — " A Company of Infantry with a Captain 

 was stationed at Caliture, and at the mouth of the river 

 of Caliture some magazines were made for the camp of 

 Manicavare, and there likewise a Company of Infantry was 

 stationed." Here the Abbe has gone out of his way to 

 blunder : the "river" referred to by Ribeiro is the Kelani, and 

 " Canasture" is Kanadura on the Gurugoda-oya. He has also 

 deliberately altered the " eighty " soldiers of which each of 

 the three companies in Colombo was composed to " eight 

 hundred." With this chapter commences the omission by 

 the copyist of B. of long passages, often of great importance, 

 of the original, with the occasional insertion of words to 

 fill up the lacunae. It is no wonder, therefore, that Le Grand 

 sometimes found it difficult to follow the narrative, and 

 inserted statements not made by Ribeiro. For instance, 

 in this chapter LeG. makes Ribeiro say of Lopo Barriga 



