Note 1 — CHAP. II
Reading edition
: There is an obscure sentence in PLINY which would seem to imply that the Arabs had settled in Ceylon before the first century of our Christian era:—"Regi cultum Liberi patris, coeteris Arabum."—Lib. vi. c. 22.
2: GILDEMEISTER; Scriptores Arabi de Rebus Indicis, p. 40.
3: EDRISI, tom. i p. 72.