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[461.] Knox, Ceylon, Pt. I. ch. vi. p. 24.

[462.] Phil. Trans., lxxi. 167–8, note.

[463.] Ibid.

[464.] Voy. to Cape of Good Hope, i. 261; Cf. Alexander’s Exped. into Africa, i. 52.

[465.] Trav. in S. Africa, p. 501.

[466.] Burton’s Cent. Africa, i. 202.

[467.] Buchanan, i. 7; Forbes, Orient. Mem., i. 305.

[468.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 308, note.

[469.] Letters written in a Mahratta Camp in 1809.

[470.] Backhouse, p. 584.