Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: The mention of sandal-wood is suggestive. It does not, so far as I could ever learn, exist in Ceylon; yet it is mentioned with particular care amongst its exports in the Chinese books. Can it be that, like the calamander, or Coromandel-wood, which is rapidly approaching extinction, sandal-wood was extirpated from the island by injudicious cutting, unaccompanied by any precautions for the reproduction of the tree?
2: Nan-shè, b. lxxviii. p. 13.
3: Suh-Hung keën-luh, b. xlii. p. 52.