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Conde 



Ouda 



Corunda 



Gauha 



Weija* 



Ponahoy 



Tun 



Angul 



Vehar 



Dewal 



mountains, hence the royal city situated 

 in the hills is called Candi, which is 

 shown in the annexed map of this 

 island 



high 



cinnamon 



tree 



river 



fifty 



three 



finger 



a temple of the chief god Buddoe, 

 whom Clement of Alexandria has 

 noted (Strom., lib. I., p. 223) that 

 the Indians worship 



a temple distinct from the temples 

 called Vehar and by some called 

 Cowil in Malabar. See Knox's 

 Description of Ceylon, Part IV., 

 chapter 3, and Baldaeus' Descriptio 

 Orae Malabaricae, p. 153 



V. — Similar Words in Singalese and Malay. 



I have discovered in this Vocabulary some words which 

 are common to this and to the Malay language, as Singa, 

 lion, whence the name itself of the Singalese, which is Singa, 

 lion, with which agrees the Brahmin (Brachmanum) Seng, 

 which means the same ; Manuspa/jaa, man, in Malay 

 Manuschja, man, whence gambdla anging raja,\ a place 

 inhabited by men ; Kaludewaa, ass, Malay Kalidi; but since 

 that sound comes from a Malabar origin, and many other 

 Singalese word-sounds also spring from the Malabars, 

 who are near neighbours of the Singalese, it is rather to be 



(sic - ) derived its name from a grove of mango trees, called also Colamba 

 in Sinhalese [properly Kolombiya — J.P.L.] ; but in one of the most ancient 

 native works extant we read that Calamba signifies a sea port and a 

 fortified place......... it is quite certain that the Portuguese conquerors 



corrupted or changed the name from Calamba to Colombo in honour of 

 their celebrated navigator Columbus " (p. 41). 



* For oya. Knox gives weya. 



f G-iven in Malay characters. 



