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32. — The description of these stages seems to correspond to the usual 
basement of a paadda building, which is always elaborately moulded 
in ornamental lines in stages with figures supporting them. —J. 
33. — The ofL'erings made at this shrine were — 
2 cloth water strainers 
1 betel bag 
60 wax candles 
8 bundles incense sticks 
1 gold pagoda {yardgan) 
53 rupees 
50 current ridis 
1 ticcal ridi 
2 coloured cloths worth 30 ridis j 1 log sandalwood 
11 rolls of fine cloth, 18 cubits 9 alms-bowls 
long, 5^ spans wide, worth | CIoyq^ {loasawdd)^ imimQg^ 
lib ridis | cinnamon, camphor, 
3 cloths, named Kaveniya, ; cardamoms 
Sarnukkalama, and | Needles 
Sarasaya i Ridis, thuttus and cash 
2 lansolu cloths | Flowers 
1 silk tuppafciya I Lamps, &c. 
34. — This is literally true even to the present day, for rivers and creeks 
are the highways of Siam and no household is without at least one 
boat. — J. 
35. — Lak : a common name for a village temple, meaning pillar or 
post, probably referring to the mark set up when a site is selected for a 
a temple. Dhan : perhaps Siamese Ddn^ "the pillar of charity." — J. 
?6. — Wilbagedara has left us the following additional information. On 
Thursday the eighth day of tlje increasing moon of the month Uduwak, 
in the Saka year 1674, about midnight, Pattapola Attapattuwe Mohot- 
tala died at Bangkok while the ambassadors were on their way home. 
The corpse was dressed in four cloths with an inner and outer vest 
and a " jaggalat thoppiya a mattress was spread at the bottom of the 
coffin with pillows at head and foot, and the body laid on these, and the 
coffin closed. Over all a violet (nilkarjm) thiippatiya was cast as a pall 
and the coffin placed on the deck. The priests then recited bhna^ and 
after offerings had been made to them the coffin was lowered into the 
ship's boat, which sailed away under a salute of thirty-two guns. After 
sailing eight gavvas the coffin was landed at night and removed inside 
a house, while the twenty oarsmen were fed with rice bought at the 
spot. On Saturday at ten peyas after dawn it was placed within the 
preaching-hail of the YatPakanoth Yihare, when forty priests recited 
hana. Six hundred logs of wood were purchased, and the corpse 
cremated within apparently a crematorium. 
A disgraceful incident followed : Nattabura Unnanse, who had 
accompanied the writer on his first voyage to Siam and had then 
deserted, now appeared on the scene in an attempt to obtain for himself 
the property of the deceased Mohottala : in fact, as the writer ruefully 
observes, he was robbed of a whole night's sleep by the importunities 
of this son of Belial, who was put off by a reference to the decision of 
the Court of Kandy. He then proceeded to the ship where the priests 
were, and demanded from th^^m the offerings that had been made to 
them by the ambassadors : their refusal so exasperated him that he 
proceeded to strike the saintly Arya Muni Thero and a novice on their 
heads with a club. The alarmed priests refused point blank to proceed 
any further ; for, said they, if the men sent from Layka are such, 
