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and the other in the Malabar. The word 
Handasroovo siguifyiiig honoiable or pure is also 
added to it. There are several kinds of this 
caste, each of which understand t!ie nature of 
his wo'k amongst \vlioni the lour folloA^ing are 
the principal : — 
1. Bandaeoo or Adaping, bping those thatase 
Dnke? or Counts at Court or even Princes of 
the King's House, 
2. Mantrioonoo. — Those thet seive next to the 
King as chief councellois at Court and have 
precedence next to liini. 
3. Mandkliatkeoo, — These are Modeliars, 
Adi^ars and iJcssaves, although such titles are 
mostly applicable to niililaiy men. 
4. GOYl'EUOO. — Tljis appellation is applicable to 
the military as well as the hui-londnitn. 
Besides these tlieie are now nine other sorts 
of Bellallep, who are not until tlie picseut period 
bound to perform any other services to the 
King;, when at Court or in the Gabaddas (being 
the provision villages) and called Battgame 
by them, 
1. WANNiiWEDDAS, being hunters, being in the 
woods and having their own Prince, as on the 
Island of Ceylon in the Wanny country . Although 
they were foinierly subject to the King, and 
row to the Company, but not farther than that 
they are bound according to ngieement annually 
to contribute and to appear with toothed 
elephants, of which class are there two kinds of 
"Weddas, the one that wear leaves on their body, 
and the other called Ritipatte or th.e hunters 
of the tree, because they wear the baik of trees 
beaten soft on their bodies, and have their 
houses covered with the leaves of trees. Both 
men and women eat nothing but the flesh of 
elks and deer &c. which they preserve in honey 
in the hollows of trees. Their -weapons consist 
in bows and arrows, and if they are in want of 
arrows they fetch as much iron as is necessaiy 
for the purpose with the leg of an elk or that 
of a deer, together with the forms of tlie arrows 
they want, and lay it during night at the door 
of a blacksmith, where having waited three or 
four days, if they conjecture it not finished they 
Come with another piece of venison, and if they 
lind the arrow lying finished they lay down the 
other log also that night and depart silently 
without speaking to raiy body, but if the black- 
smith neglects the same they wilt do him every 
possible mischief. 
2. JJiEGARANNO are those that search for pre- 
cious stones in rivers and channels and v/herever 
they are to be found, 
3. Malaccarao.— Their duty is to provide 
flowers f<ir the use of the Court. 
4. DoLOE WooRECAKEO are betel or pinang 
bringeis. 
5. HooNKlRIKAKEO. — These are bringers of milk, 
with which they must provide the Cturt daily. 
6. DoDDEWEDDAS are hunters. 
7. GoDDEGAKAKKO.—That seaich in the ground 
for precious stones. 
8. Batagmwelle etto are sowers of the King's 
gabaddas or ]iiovision vilL^ges. 
9. Gambadoocai;eo are Bojerc s w ho t&ke care 
of the cows and piovide tliem with giain .ond 
other necessaries on account of the King. 
Although ibpy are divided into so many classes, 
they fuim one sole caste of Bellalles, but the 
priucipi.l among, and ihuse that aie but of one 
degree higher than the other, will not eat at a 
feast or otherwise with his inferior, nor give their 
daughters to them in mairiage, but an inferior 
will accept the same from his superior. They 
sow and plough, and all their difference consists 
in the situations they hold from the King at 
Court, although they are sometimes influenced by 
riches in their marriages. 
If a l^ing is crowned, the four principal castes 
must be present being Kaj^i, Bronne, Wclende 
and Goya, and the crown is taken and set upon 
the head ot the King l)y four persons belong- 
ing to these seveial castes. 
After they become rich and qualified for the 
same, the two foregoing castes may enjoy regal 
honours, excepting the spreading of white cloth, 
the white sambriero or kitter&ol called by them 
Mootookanda, • and the decoration of white cloth 
under and above either in a catapauel , or other- 
wise which solely appertains to the Kis.g, and 
to those that he chooses to allow at their feasts. 
Besides these there are Bellalles that are liable 
to five or six different services, as low as coolies, 
who are of a poor and needy oriuin, but the 
rich and principal persons are entitled to every 
kind of hieh situations at Ccuit, in proportion 
to their good conduct, and the faithful services 
rendered l)y their forefathers to the Priice. 
The officers belonging to the Dessaveship of 
Matura are the following ; — 
1. Adigae. — This is next in rank to the 
Dessave, who executes every thing otdered by 
him and reports to him upon all matters. He 
pays attention to the welfare of the country 
and takes care the people suffer no oppression 
from the inferior headmen, which the Dcssave 
is himself obliged to enquire into as well as of 
the conduct of the Adigar in all respects. 
The Adigar must also provide the wants of 
the Lord of the country, and he receives orders 
to that effect. 
2. MOODELLIAE, — He is a captain, and has 
under him three or four Rantchies, or bands of 
Lascoreens, each of which Kantchies consist of one 
Aratchy, two Canganies, and twenty-four Las- 
coreens, ov native soldiers, who must always be 
jirepaved for fighting and succeed each other on 
duty every fourteen or thirty days. 
3. MoiiATTiRALis, or MoHATTiARS are Certain 
writers of the Court, of which there are at 
present four under the Dessave of Matura, amongst 
whom the Attepattoo Mohattiaar must be con- 
stantly near the Dessave, to write all kinds of 
olas, or papers, acts, letters, placards and orders 
which occur for which he receives payment. The 
other Muhattiais must also be continually present, 
alihough every one vf them has his own peculiar 
services to perform, and what the nature ot their 
respective services aie will appear hereunder, 
sucli as the 
Attepattoo Mohattiar, who has under 
him the Koll of the allowances to all the headmen 
and the lascoieeus, as well as that of the mechanics 
in the distlic^ of ^'.'a;ula, and what, thty res- 
pectively enj'iy fiom the Loid of the Ci.untiy 
together with their fiee Parvenies, which th.ey 
possess hereditarily. This Mohattiar must also 
1)6 always ready to jirepare such olas as shall 
be icquiicd in the district of Slatura. 
One of the I f niuining Mohalliars besides being 
obligeil tocollcct certain Isixes cahed Mabanauapoo, 
and M-\ralls, and tlie o her tl;e Madapoo and 
Faios, and the third the ariack, all of them 
being Duties due to the State, there are special 
