Identifier: journalofceylonb10roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch
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Publisher: Colombo
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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ably the descendants of personsshipwrecked on the coasts of the Island. But he has quitemisunderstood our author, who makes no such statement asthat fathered upon him, but is referring to the Veddas.LeG. also makes Ribeiro say :— There was formerlynear Balane a small Kingdom called Saula: here the Abbehas misread the J of Jaula (Yala) in B. as an S, and hasmistakenly altered Balave (Walawe) to Balane. Amongthe places supplied with salt from the saltpans of BalaveRibeiro mentions Villacem (Wellassa): this name LeG.omits. The pagoda which Ribeiro speaks of at the end ofthis chapter is not the Wirgel-coil or temple as Lee states,but that of Kataragama : Ribeiro gives the name ( Catergao),but LeG. has failed to record it. Ribeiro, moreover, saysthat it was guarded by five hundred armed men, not 1,500, as LeG. makes it. Book II. Chapter /.— In this chapter occurs a passage, one wordof which LeG. has most amusingly metamorphosed. InLeG. we read :— It was immediately sought to reassure
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No. 36.—1888.) CAPTAIN JOAO RIBEIRO. 289 the subjects of the King of Portugal, somewhat alarmed by theirruption which the King of Candy had made ; a garrison offive hundred Portuguese was placed at Maula, in order toarrest the incursions of the Cingalese, and to abate the prideof their King. Now I have no doubt that many readers ofLeG. or of Lees translation have wondered where Maniawas situated, and have searched the maps in vain to find it.The fact is, however, that Maula is what Professor Skeatwould call a ghost word, and is an invention of the worthyAbbe, founded on a misreading of B. What Ribeiro wrotewas that The General quieted all the territories, and seeingthat the war had broken out from the Kings side, and that hewas very proud and vain, and in order to tame his pride, puthimself on the march with five hundred Portuguese soldiers,and the black people of our territories, all well armed, &c.1 give on the opposite page a facsimile of the passage in B.,from which it will

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