EARLY COMMERCE, SHIPPING, AND PRODUCTIONS.

Trade entirely in the hands of strangers [440]
Native shipping unconnected with commerce [440]
Same indifference to trade prevails at this day [441]
Singhalese boats all copied from foreign models [442]
All sewn together and without iron [442]
Romance of the "Loadstone Island" [443]
The legend believed by Greeks and the Chinese [443]
Vessels with two prows mentioned by Strabo [444]
Foreign trade spoken of B.C. 204 [444]
Internal traffic in the ancient city of Ceylon [445]
Merchants traversing the island [445]
Early exports from Ceylon,—gems, pearls, &c. [445]
The imports, chiefly manufactures [446]
Horses and carriages imported from India [447]
Cloth, silk, &c., brought from Persia [447]
Kashmir, intercourse with [447]
Edrisi's account of Ceylon trade in the twelfth century [448]