358 JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XVIII. 
severa] persons of this name in the Portuguese Service in 
Ceylon.* 
This then is an extremely interesting find, both from a 
historical and an archaeological point of view, though Mr. 
Haughton was of opinion that it would not be worth while 
removing it from its position in the stables, as though 
undoubtedly a Portuguese tombstone or memorial, it had " no 
historical or archsBological interest." It has, however, with 
the other Mannar tombstones, been removed to and set up 
in the small church within the Fort — which contains the 
Dutch tombstones removed from the old Dutch church in 
the town of Mannar, when it tumbled down in the cyclone 
of 1814, I believe. This at least is a more appropriate 
place for them than the main drain of the Fort and the 
Assistant Agent's stables, even though this one, as a quaint 
protest against vandalism, was promoted from pig to horse 
trough. 
It is interesting to find that one of the Goa tombstones, 
viz., the first in Professor Gracias' pamphlet, is that of a 
Governor of Mannar : — 
Sepultura de M^^ Ser 
rao fidalgo da cz d S 
M® cavalr e pf esse do 
abito de Christo cape go 
vernador que fois seis 
anos da fortz^ de Manar 
e appeatr do passo dagai 
e de Frco Ser M fid conc^ de S 
M^ Donna M Brandoa 
e de sous er 
I have been furnished with the following translation by 
the compiler : " The tomb of Manuel Serrao, a nobleman of 
the house of His Majesty, Knight, professed of the Order 
* See, for instance, the note by Mr. D. W. Ferguson on Diego de Melo 
Sainpayo in " The Travels of Pedro Taxeiro," published by the Hakluyt 
Bocioty, 1902, p. 140., also Lee's Ribeiro, p. HO, Uiheiro, FatalidadeHistoriea, 
p. 208. 
