LITERARY REGISTER SUPPLEMENT: 
AND CEYLON 
"NOTES AND QUERIES.' 
fUnc'er this heading we mean to give a small " Supplement " with our Tropical Agriculturist ■monthly 
According as there ia matter of sufficient vttlue so to be preserved.] 
ARPir., 1904. 
MONSIEUR BURNARDS MEMOIR ON 
CEYLON. 
THE NAMES OF THE NATIVE OFFICERS BELONGING 
TO THE VILLAGKS OF CEYLON. 
(Continued from page 147.) 
CORALL. — A Corall is a superintendent of a 
Corle or Province, who has under his command twO| 
three, four Attoo Coralls accinding to the extent 
and division of the Korle, and tliere are some- 
times three or four Pattoos or Divisions in a Corle. 
He has also under him six or eight Lascoreens, 
Pamideas or Messenoers ; and the Attoo Coralls 
are to perform the orders issued to them by the 
Corall. 
Carikcoranno or the Mayoralls —These 
are the subordinate headmen of a village ; in some 
there are one or two and sometimes six or more 
according to the extent and improved state of the 
cultivation of the village, and the number of 
inhabitants it contains. They are to pay their 
Deccums annually, and the MnyoraUs ought 
also to be careful that the village is culti- 
vated and sown in due season, and be mindful of 
the other resources which may be derived from 
the village or to the possessors of sucli lands 
annually ; and if the chief of the village visits 
it, they must provide him with a good lodging, 
in an appropriate place, and take care that 
such lodging is decorated with white cloths ; 
and his chairs and bedding ornamented with the 
same, and they are to provide him twice a day 
with adookoos or dressed victuals, as well as to 
bring him peyndoos or undressed provisions ac- 
cording to the choice of the chief of the village, 
and to perform this service for as many days 
as is usual in the village, such as three, four or 
six days for one of the chiefs according to the 
eiee and resources of the village. There are five 
degrees of these Mayoralls, the one having 
precedence or rank of the other, such as Helli- 
hamis, Japamis, Pata Rannearoe, Gammeialearoe, 
and Vitarannearoe. 
LiANNO is the writer of a village who keeps a 
register of the crops and the quantity of corn 
reaped and collected, of which he is obliged to 
render an account to the possessor. 
CangaNKME.— He presses and assembles the 
people together if any manner of work is required 
to be performed in the village. 
ManaNA. — A measurer of grain, whose duty 
is to divide the same after it has lieeu gathei-ed 
in case there are different persons entitled to it as 
partners. He must also measure out separately 
the share of Tax or Duty. 
Gamhewayo. — A Lascoreen of the village, who 
assembles the people by order of the subordinate 
chiefs or the Vidan of the villnge, and intimatea 
from house to house, when and on what day 
they are to assemble. He also carries messages. 
Haindes.— He must preform such work as is 
ordered to be done in a village, and also work 
by turns for the King or the Government of the 
country. 
Coolies. — Bearer.= of every kind of burdeni 
goods and andols or palankeens. The coolies are 
of the caste or descendants of the Bellalles, which 
have arisen since the turn of the Portuguese. 
Previous to that period there were no coolies 
amongst the Bellala caste, but in that of the 
lower castes only. 
The King Sooriyavankse.— This signifies that 
they are descendants of the sun or from Vigia Kaja, 
the first king of Ceylon, who allowed the under- 
mentioned castes the privilege of bathing and 
so forth, according to the following specific des- 
cription given of each of those castes, and which 
is consequently in use from that period until 
the present beginning with two particular castes, 
and in the first place with the Carreas or the 
Fisher's caste and the Chandoos of the Uarrea caste 
there are nine descriptions, to wit : — 
l.Carawo; 2, Baroodel Carawo ; 3, DandooGara- 
wo ; 4, Moroo Carawo ; 5, KespeCarawo; 6, Cadool 
Carawo ; 7, Tok Keulo ; 8, Goda Keulo ; 9, Indimal 
Keulo. 
These nine sorts of Carea'' have each of them 
their peculiar kind of implements for fishing to 
which they must respectively strictly adhere in 
the same manner as was anciently imposed upon 
them as it shall be shown hereafter. 
Carawo. — These are the principal fishermen 
from whom their chiefs are appointed, according to 
the activity displayed by them in war. They 
have Moodeliars, Mohandirams, Aratchys, Can- 
ganys, and other respectable employments amongst 
them. They are allowed to sail with their dohiea 
or vessels deep into the sea with their implements 
for fishing, but they are prohibited the use of 
hooks and lines. 
Baroodel Carawo.— These may only use the 
casting net, termed by them Baroodel or Wisoodel, 
both in the sea and rivers. 
Dandoo Carawo. — These may only fish at sea 
with the angling rod, which they make of small 
bamboos, and with which they fish in the deep sea, 
MoRoo Carawo. — These have nets made of hemp, 
and go to sea to catch sharks with which they 
make oil for sale, and are not allowed to catch 
any other fish. 
