Note 1 — Chapter I

: A compendious account of the early trade between India and the countries bordering on the Mediterranean will be found in PARDESSUS's Collection des Lois Maritimes antérieures au XVIII^e siècle, tom. i. p. 9.

2: It has been conjectured, and not without reason, that it may possibly have been from Ceylon and certainly from Southern India that the fleets of Solomon were returning when "once in every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks."—I Kings, x. 22, II Chron., xx. 21. An exposition of the reasons for believing that the site of Tarshish may be recognised in the modern Point de Galle will be found in a subsequent chapter descriptive of that ancient emporium. See also Note A at the end of this chapter.