INDIAN, ARABIAN, AND PERSIAN AUTHORITIES.

Absurd errors of the Hindus regarding Ceylon [578]
Their dread of Ceylon as the abode of demons [578]
Rise of the Mahometan power [579]
Persians and Arabs trade to India [579]
Story in Beladory of the first invasion of India by the Mahometans (text and note) [580]
Character of the Arabian geographers [581]
Their superiority over the Greeks [581]
Greek Paradoxical literature [582]
A.D. 851. The two Mahometans [583]
Their account of Ceylon [583]
Adam's Peak [583]
Obsequies of a king [584]
Councils on religion and history [584]
Toleration [585]
Carmathic monument at Colombo (note) [585]
Galle, the seat of ancient trade [586]
Claim of Mantotte disproved [587]
Greek fire (note) [588]
"Kalah" is Galle [589]
The Maharaja of Zabedj help possession of Galle [589]
Evidence of this in the Garsharsp-Namah [590]
Derivation of "Galle" (text and note) [591]
Aversion of the Singhalese to commerce [592]
Identification of the modern Veddahs with the ancient Singhalese [593]
Their singular habits, as described by Robert Knox, Ribeyro, and Valentyn [593]
- By Albyrouni [593]
- By Palladius [593]
- By Fa Hian [594]
- By the Chinese writers (note) [594]
- By Pliny [594]
For this reason the coast only known to strangers [595]
Arabian authors who describe Ceylon [595]
- Albateny and Massoudi [595]
- Tabari (note) [595]
- Sinbad the Sailor [596]
- Edrisi [597]
- Kazwini [598]
Cinnamon, no mention of [599]
Was cinnamon a native of Ceylon? [599]
No mention by Singhalese authors [600]
No mention of by Latin writers [600]
The Regio Cinnamomifera was in Africa (note) [600]
- No mention by Arabs or Persians [600]
- First noticed in Ceylon by Ibn Batuta [601]
- By Nicola di Conti (note) [601]
Ibn Batuta describes Ceylon [604]
- His Travels [605]