Index. 
445 
Point Pedro, 70 
Polygamy, allowed by the Ceylonese, .... 1. 96 
Port of Trincomalee, its great advantages, 66' 
Ports and harbours, 55> 
Portuguese, arrival, .a ; state of the island at 
that time, 6 ; their impolitic conduct and its 
consequences, 16 ; they resist the Dutch and 
are defeated, 23 ; propose a treaty of peace, 
27 ; reinforce themselves and build fort osten- 
burgh and others, 2-S ; total expulsion, 37 ; 
neglect of improvement, 38 
Portuguese, a description of people now so cal- 
led natives of Ceylon, 73 ; their origin, l6'5 j 
language, 136; manners and religion, l6’6, 167 
Priests attending on Buddou, 392 
Princes, inferior, of Ceylon, 24 
Puckally boys, water carriers, .......... 125 
Punishments of the Candians, military, 276; 
civil, 279 
Putallora, its salt works, 107 
Q. 
Quadrupeds, 288 ; elephants (see elephants) ; 
horses, 294 ; sheep, 297 j oxen, 296 ; buf- 
faloes, 297 ; deer, 299 ; hares, 299 : wild 
boars, 299; tiger and tiger-cat, 300; Jack- 
alls, 300; monkeys, 300; squirrels, 301; 
Indian ichneumon, 301 ; dormouse, 302 ; 
rats, ditferent species, 303, 304 ; bandy- 
coot, 303 ; musk-rat, 304 ; talgoi, . . . 305 
Quicksilver mines, 35g 
n. 
Rains in the interior, 255 
Rainy seasons, eft'ects on Europeans, and how 
counteracted, 131 
Ramiseram, description of, 80 
Rats, ditferent species, 303 ; the musk-rat, 304 
Raymond (Col.) 1 17 
Reflections, on the Impolicy of the Portuguese, 
37 ; on the bad conduct of the Dutch, 53 ; 
on the former and present state of Cey- 
lon, 366 
Religion of the Celonese, 210; remarkably 
superstitious, 210; (.see superstition) idola- 
"trous, 21 5; Buddou their Saviour, 215; 
(see Buddou) days of worship, 223 ; reli- 
gious festivals, 224 ; use of beads adoptedfrom 
the Portuguese, 228 ; religious tenets, 229 
Reptiles of Ceylon, 309; covra-capello, 309; 
covra man ilia, 310; whip-snake, grass-snake^ 
water-snake, wood-snake, 310; rock-snake. 
310; alligators, 31 1 ; guana, 312; leeches^ 
312 ; flying lizard, 314 
Revenue of the island, whence derived, 368 j 
from the cinnamon, and hints for improv- 
ing it, 352 
Revenues of Candy, 273 
Rice, how cultivated, 337 
Rivers, general description, 39 
Roads and internal communications, 61, 151; 
improved by Governor North, 6l ; neglected 
by the Dutch, 6l 
Road from Manaar to Colurabo, much infested 
with wild animals, its distance, 106 
Ruby, 354. 
Running a muck, .................... 178 
S. 
Sapphires, their sorts, .....355' 
Sardonix, 355 
Satinwood tree, 334 
Scorpion, (black) 317 
Shaddock or pumpelmose, 320 
Sheep, Jafnapatam the best place for breed- 
ing, 70, 142 
Sinclric-mal tree, 335 
Sittivacca, 3 SO 
Snipes, 30,5 
Soil, general description of, 62 
Spiders of an immense size, 3)6 
Squirrels, several sorts, 301 
Sugar tree, 330 
Superstition of the Ceylonese, 2 10 ; supported 
by the priests, 213 ; its bad effects, ‘^12 ; the 
offspring of fear rather than religion, 228 ; 
anecdote illustrative of their superstition, 214 
Swamraie, the idol of the Malay, s, 176- 
T. 
Tailor-bird, its curious nest, 308. 
Talgoi, or ant eater, . . , . . 305. 
