Note 1 — CHAP. VII
Reading edition
: Hiouen Thsang, the Chinese geographer, who visited India in the seventh century, says that at that time the Yakkhos had retired to the south-east corner of Ceylon;—and here their descendants, the Veddahs, are found at the present day,—Voyages, &c., liv. iv. p. 200.
2: Mahawanso, ch. xxiv. p. 145, xxxiii. p. 204.
3: DE ALWIS, Sidath Sangara, p. xvii. For an account of the Veddahs and their present condition, see Vol. II. P. ix. ch. iii.