( so ) 
words beinf; rather over illuafcrated). Among 
words in current use in Ceylon, but not 
recorded here, 1 may mention (beside many 
others), nmottoo (liorsekeeper) barbacua (coffee 
drying ground), creeper (planting-tyro), iotum 
(estate), sick (in the estate sense), fMdiati (boy), 
pc/'riZ?/ (dangerous or h'isky}.sheemy (country), 
■ehedciy (jungle undergrowth) niUoo, patna, 
maduioa, pinkamaDiss iwe, dissava, is here duly 
recorded, bub nob ratemahatmayci ; modelliar, 
modliar, and vidaiia, bub neither aratchy nor 
mohcmdiram ; mainootif, mamoty, momatti/, but 
not cattii uu the sense of a bill-liook), uor 
alavanga; conioopoly, but nob ca?inic/j (accounb); 
coprah, bub not checko (coconub-oil mill) ; 
batta, bat not samblam (pay); boy, bub not 
appoo (butler) ; cataniaram, but not padda- 
boat •; hopper, bub nob rotee ; dagoba and 
vihara. wUiare, but not pansala. 
Another tault in this new edition, as in 
the old, is the smallness of the margin, 
especially on the inner side. Of course this 
also is a question of expense ; but another 
inch of margin would have been a great 
boon lor tliose who, like myself, are accus- 
tomed to annotate freely. 
In reviewing the first edition of Robson 
Johson I pointed out various errors in 
connection with words relating to Ceylon, 
yom; of these mistakes have been rectified 
in thib new edition ; but others still remain, 
I am sorry to say, to mislead the innocent 
and unwary reader. 
Un4er 'Anaconda" the editor gives the 
gist of my communication to Notes and 
Queries, and characterises my derivation of 
the word as " a more plausible explanation." 
That it is the correct one, I am absolutely 
•certain ; though how the name of the graceful 
wiiipsuake {henakandayd) came to be erro- 
neously transferred to the monstrous python 
{pinibnrd) I have failed to discover, though 
I strongly suspect a mixing of the labels 
on the specimens at Leyden. (In this 
connection I may draw attention to the 
fact mentioned by Mr. Lawrie in his 
Gazetteer of the Central Provinces, p. 2191, that 
one the Kandyan queens was named 
Henakauda Biso Bandara, so called, doubtless, 
from her graceful and slender figure.) The 
Malagasy anahanify (nob analuxndlfy, as 
printed) is a mere coincidence. 
At the end of the article on " Bamboo " 
Col. Yule remarked: — "E Haeckel, in hiss 
Vi^it to Ceylon (1882), speaks of bamboo- 
stems at Feradenia, ' each from a foot to 
two feet thick.' We can obtain no corro- 
boration of anything approaching two 
feet." In quoting these words in my notice 
of the first edition I added :— " This is a 
question that can be easily settled : perhaps 
Dr. Trimen will furnish the maximum 
diameter." The question remained un- 
answered, however, for more than a year. 
Meanwhile Mr. Albert Grray, in a note to 
the lirst volume of his translation of Pyrard 
for the Hakluy t Society, had once more drawn 
attention to Haeckel's statement. Having to 
review tills volume in the Ceylon Literary 
Reaister, \ wrote to Dr. Trimen on the point 
in question, and he replied:—" ... I 
thought it not unlikely that the mistake 
was the translator's. But I see that Haeckel 
really does say '1—2 Puss dicke.' Of course 
this is vastly beyond the mark. I have never 
seen one of our Giant Bamboos over 9i 
inches in diameter. But Haeckel's remini- 
scences of Ceylon are often inaccurate. He 
nevr would take a note of any sort but 
trusted entirely to memory with the usual 
result " (G. Lit. JXej., ii. p. 272). In the new- 
edition a reference to Mr. Gray's note is 
added ; but it is unfortunate that the editor 
did not know of Dr. Trimen's correction. 
Under *' Bo tree " the Sinhalese name i.s 
still given erroneously as bo-gds instead of 
bd-gaha. The fact should have been noted, 
that several Portuguese and Dutch writers 
call it the *' devil-tree." 
Under " Cabook " Col. Yule's surmise that 
the word came from Portuguese cavoueo 
(quarry) is shown to be correct, (Daalmana 
calls it kapkok, and not kaphok, as here 
printed). 
The mis-spellings and erroneous surmises 
given under " Calamander Wood" remain 
uncorrected, and have, I am sorry to say, 
been copied into the New English Dictionary. 
As I pointed out in my notice of the first 
edition, the origin of the name is perfectly 
simple. Calamander is a corruption of the 
Sinhalese kalumediHya, which word easily 
resolves itself into its component parts — 
kalu (black) medi (middle), ri-iri (lines, striee), 
t/a (nominal termination). The description of 
the wood by Thunberg, in the first quotation 
given by Yule, completely bears out this de- 
rivation ; though the learned G-erman natura- 
list states that " in the Cingalese language 
Calaminder is said to signify a black flaming 
tree." Evidently the philological wiseacre 
who foisted this erroneous information on 
Thunberg thought that minder was from 
Sinhalese mini-dediri, which means " open, 
expanded, blown as a flower" (Clough), or 
else connected it with Sinh. min, one of 
the meanings of which is "light, effulgence." 
I cannot claim originality in setting forth 
the above simple derivation, for it was given 
years ago in the Library of Useful Know- 
ledge (see Mendis's Timber Trees of Ceylon, by 
W. Ferguson, p. 7). By the way, calamander 
is surely not a "rose-wood," as Col. Yule 
calls it ? 
I come now to "Candy" — for so the name 
of the mountain capital of Ceylon is enbered, 
not a hint being given that this spelling has 
long been superseded by " Kandy." What 
Col. Yule wrote of this place remains un- 
altered, as follows;— "A town in the hill 
country of Ceylon, which became the deposit 
of the sacred tooth of Buddah at the be- 
ginning of the lith century, and was adopted 
as the native capital about 1592. Ohitty 
says the name is unknown to the natives, 
who call the place Maha nuvera, ' great 
city.' The name seems to have arisen out 
of some misapprehension by the Portuguese, 
which may be illustrated by the quotation 
from Valentijn." As I showed, when review- 
ing the first edition, Valentijn simply bor- 
rows from Knox, whose words are quoted by 
Yule immediately above those of the Dutch 
writer. It is unfortunate that thp learned 
compiler should have taken his information 
from Oa'?ie Chitty (who is nearly everywhere 
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