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Ceylon, Productions, Volume 1

Note 1 — CHAP. V.

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: This error may be traced to the French commentator on RIBEYRO's History of Ceylon, who describes the fish-hook money in use in the kingdom of Kandy, whilst the Portuguese held the low country, as so simple in its form that every man might make it for himself: "Le Roy de Candy avoit aussi permis á ses peuples de se servir d'une monnoye que chacun peut fabriquer."—Ch. x. p. 81.

2: "Les larins sont tout-à-fait commodes et nécessaires dans les Indes, surtout pour acheter du poivre à Cochin, où l'on en fait grand état."—Voyage aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam, A.D. 1716, vol. vi. p. 626.

3: Rock-inscription at Dambool, A.D. 1200. The Rajavali mentions the ridis as in circulation in Ceylon at the period of the arrival of the Portuguese, A.D. 1505.—P. 278.

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