Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: Taou-e ché-lëŏ, quoted in the Foreign Geography, b. xviii. p. 15.
2: The rapid peopling of Ceylon at a very remote age is accounted for in the following terms in a passage of MA-TWAN-LIN, as translated by M. Stanislas Julien;—"Les habitants des autres royaumes entendirent parler de ce pays fortuné; c'est pourquoi ils y accoururent à l'envi."—Journ. Asiat. t. xxix. p. 42.
3: Records of the Ming Dynasty, by CHING-HEAOU, b. lxviii. p. 5.