No. 6:1. — 1908.] Portuguese in ceylon. 



Ill 



In all there were under the supervision of the Colombo college 

 11,149 Christians, as well as 1,420 children who were being 

 catechised. 



Under the college of Jaffnapatam were the following resi- 

 dences : — 



Cutandaculam : patron, St. Michael. 

 Palle (Pallai) : patron, Crucifix. 

 Tambamma : patron, Nativity of Our Lady. 

 Mugamalle (Mohamalai) : patron, All Saints. 

 Achivelli (Achuveli): patron, Holy Ghost. 

 Mailatti (Mayliddi): patron, Our Lady of Angels. 

 Telipulle (Telleppolai) : patrons, St. Peter and St. Paul.. 

 Malagam (Mallakam) : patron, St. Ignatius. 

 Panditiripu (Pandaiteruppu) : patron, Our Lady of Remedies. 

 Changane (Changanai): patron, the Holy Trinity. 

 Vatucote (Vaddukkoddai) : patron, the Assumption of Our 

 Lady. 



Cardiva: patron, Our Lady of Remedies. 



(Apparently this last island was gifted to the society by Don Hiero- 

 nymo de Azavedo : king's letter to viceroy, March 28, 1608.) 



In all there were 32,287 Christians under this college ; there 

 were besides 1,000 Christians in the Vanni where there was no 

 church, and where for five years it had no longer been possible 

 for the fathers to go and preach. 



In the island of Mannar were five residences, with a superior 

 depending immediately on the father provincial. He was also 

 the Father of the Christians, whose duty it was to take charge of 

 the catechumens, and to look after the interests of the Chris- 

 tians before the ecclesiastical and civil tribunals. Of the 

 residences the first was that of the Careas, the fishermen who were 

 engaged in the pearl fishery, and had for its patron St. Thomas ; 

 the next was called after its patron, San Pedro. The residence 

 of Carcel was dedicated to Our Lady of Good Success, and had 

 attached to it the church of Talaimaiinar, patron St. Lawrence. 

 The last, Tatavali, patron St. Andrew, represented the first 

 converts under St. Francis Xavier, and from among them came 

 the six hundred martyrs. The total number of Christians in 

 this island was 5,450. 



APPENDIX. 



Mr. P. E. Pieris's Paper on Portuguese Ceylon. 



5th August. 



What Mr. Pieris has actually ignored are my translations, in 

 vol. IV. of the " Monthly Literary Register," of two important 

 documents from the very volumes of the Livros dos Mongoes 

 utilized by him for his Paper. One of these documents he sum- 

 marizes fully, with no hint that a full translation had appeared 



