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entrance passage of the Fort to find them, and when found 
to piece them together. Eventually we succeeded in fitting 
together four fragments, with the result shown in the sketjch. 
The fifth fragment, with what appeared to be the letter V on 
it, it was impossible to fit in anywhere, though from its 
appearance and the size of the letters on it it was evidently a 
portion of the same stone. As in the last case, all attempts to 
find the remaining portions proved unsuccessful. We are 
left, therefore, with the coat of arms and a portion of the 
inscription : — 
AC lAZ SE 
BASTIAOCT 
OP 
which we should evidently read as "Aqui Jaz Sebastiao,'^ 
what looks like C being a portion of Q. All we know, 
therefore, is that ''Here lies Sebastian " (which, un- 
fortunately, he does not), and that his coat of arms is as shown 
in the sketch. This may afford a clue to his patronymic* 
Plate No. 7. 
The finding of these stones reminded me of what I had 
heard some ten years before from Mr. S. Haughton, that 
while he was Assistant Agent at Mannar he had found a 
stone trough in his compound which had been devoted by 
his predecessor to the feeding of pigs, and that he had rescued 
it from this base use, as he noticed that it had a Portuguese 
inscription on the lower side, and had built it up in his 
stables as a trough for his horse — with the inscription 
underneath. I mentioned this to Mr. Denham, and we went 
to the stables in search of it. There, sure enough, was 
the stone trough, but the cook, who had been cook to ever;y 
Assistant Agent of Mannar from Sir William Twynam down, 
would have it that the trough had been erected there by that 
* Sr. Viterbo reads — 
AQ [UI] AZ SB 
BASTIAOCAR 
[NEI] RO D [ALGA] 
[COVA] 
D 96-05 
