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Kespe Cara wo. —These eo into the sea with 
large nets for catching turtle, by which they are 
to earn their livelihood. 
Cadool Cakawo.— They make a paint of a 
reddish brown colour from the bark ol the Cadool 
tree with which they paint the sails of their 
dohies, and are accustomed to fish in the rivers. 
TOK Keulo. — These may not go to fish at sea, 
but merely in salt water canals or in the mouths of 
rivers. They have another kind of net to which 
two long ropes are tied, and younor palmira leaves 
(called I'algas in the Singhalese language) are 
^stened at one end, and the other end hangs down 
into the water ; these ropes are stretched on 
either side of the net, and the dohey is placed 
between the opening of these ropes, they then 
keep knocking with a stick upon the planks of the 
dohey, and go forwards until the net is drawn. 
They are not allowed to catch fish in any other 
inanner than this. 
GODDE Keulo. — These are not allowed to go 
to sea, but are to fish in the rivers and ac 
the mouth of the same, and in salt water canals. 
They have also a peculiar kind of implement for 
fishing, as a square net, whic h tliey stretch on the 
ground under the water with four stones ; there 
are also four wooden supporters scanding at the 
four corners of the net, at the end of which four 
persons are stationed, each of them with a towing 
rope in their hands, fastened to the four supporters 
which are stretched wider as they move along, 
and to which young olas or leaves of coooanut 
trees are fastened, and sometimes people are 
placed at the end ot the towing ropes to drive the 
fish in, and sometimes not as occasion requires, and 
should the four persons just raehtioned find that 
the net contains fish, they draw it up' immediately. 
Indimal Keulo. — They make coir rope ot the 
bark of the cocoanut as well as nets, and sell 
them to the fishermen. They also catch fish with 
baskets and small nets in the rivers, and are not 
allowed to use any flowers or mayanj (the first 
shooting out of the fruit) of the cocoanut tiree at 
their festivals, but merely the flower of the 
Dadooloos tree, which they call Indimal. 
These three last mentioned castes are the lowest 
amongst the fishermen, with whom the rest will not 
eat or form connections. 
The principal amongst them are entitled to the 
half of the honours paid to the Bellalles, to wit, the 
■Washermen are obliged to wash for them for 
wages, and are to decorate two-thirds of their 
mandoowas with white cloth at their marriages 
and to spread tlie same at the place appointed for 
eating, as well as upon their beds, and round 
the same, and also to tie white cloth upon the 
Adookoos, and use the Tooke or a Flambeau 
(called by them Davvalpandani)., Thfey also use a 
■white fl^ag with the emblem of -a fish in the middle, 
which they call the Adealankbdy, and' the fish 
itself they call Maghiere, Which honors iare not 
allowed by the higher to the lower classes amongst 
them, and they are also permitted to cause chank 
shells to be blown. 
The following castes mky eat' at their festivals, 
such as the Hinnewas, KaddeVvas, Bcrrewayos, 
Halys, Hangeneme Olios,- Kinnef eras, Pallis, and 
some more of the lower castes, but the Smiths hi 
Navadannayos, Annalios, Taylors, Pannickers or' 
Barbers are not allowed to eat with the fishermen. 
The fishermen may use talipots or Satys, 
provided that the borders of the satys be red. 
They may also have white cloths spread to walk 
upon within the fences of their premiees. ' 
They have also Military titles amongst them, 
such as Modeliars, Mohandirams, Aratchies, Can- 
ganes, and Lascoryns, and there are also at 
present amongst them such as have the situation of 
an Adigar, in consequence of their having merited 
the same by their activity. They are also dignified 
with titles by the King or the Government of 
the country, according to their employments, and 
carried in Palankeens (but without crooked bimboos 
to them) with the best of tom-toms, and use 
the double or . Irette Talpot, a coloured Shield, 
a Dawalpandam or Torch lighted by day, and 
have elephants as well as other distinctions 
according to their respective deserts. 
Besides these there are other chiefs and persons 
of dignity amongst the fishermen and persons 
liable to service, to wit : 
Pattabendas, Tottehewayas, Nanayankarayas, 
Hannedas, Baddaloovas, Coolies. 
Pattabenda signifies a person that bears a 
title, such as the chief s of the fishermen are, because 
if one does not bear a title, they are denominated 
Baddas. 
ToTTEHEWAYA is a messenger, but the word 
itself signifies the Lascoreen of a Pass. 
NanayANCARAYO are persons of respectability, 
(Who are liable to no service whatever, with the 
exception of some honourable employment, which 
are to be performed by them as well as some 
others of a very trifling nature, which they must 
be specially ordered to perform. 
HiNNEDAS are persons that go to sea ia 
dohies. 
Baddaloova.— These ought to procure fish for 
the Governor as well as for the chiefs of the 
other people twice in a day. 
Coolies or Nilecarias.— They are subject to 
carry burthens of every kind, the principal persons 
do not eat or form connections with them, although 
at Madura and its Dependencies, there is little 
difierence between them. There are also Deccum- 
careas or those that pay the capitation-tax amongst 
the fisherman. 
The Chando Caste or Toddy-Drawees.— 
These are called the Doorawo in the Sinhalese 
language, and consist of ten sorts, termed Dahadoo- 
lawas, who live by tapping the trees, although 
there is a difference in each of those classes, 
as well as in their customs, and a distinction in 
their ranks. Their names are as follows : — 
1. Magool Doorawo. — These are the princi- 
pal, and are used for catching and taming 
elephants, as well as Lascoreens, and other 
respectable services, as well as cortedoors, and they 
tap the cocoanut trees. 
2. Nattanbowo. — These are of a degree lower 
than the first, and there is little diflference . betwixt 
these two classes, in the same manner as the 
following diminish in rank from one another. 
3. Niello. — These tap the palmira-trees, and 
are not allowed to use the wooden book for 
the purpose of suspending their Mayang-knife, 
but are obliged to tie the same with a string in the 
middle ot their waist, as well as their hollow pump- 
kins, which contains their toddy (or the juice of 
the tree) and the wooden hook just mentioned 
is worn by the foregoing castes. This class must 
also wear a little bell in the middle of their waist 
to distingush their castes, and to be remarked by 
those of the Bellalle caste whilst they are passing 
under the trees, when these men are upon them, 
in order to avoid them. 
4. OosANHO.— They are also toddy drawers 
and tap the palmira-trees, and are not to wear any 
