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[143]. Ibid., p. 22.
[144]. “The Book of Ser Marco Polo,” London, 1871, Vol. II, p. 267.
[145]. Cordiner, “Description of Ceylon,” Vol. II, p. 52.
[146]. “Reports on the Pearl Fisheries of 1904,” p. 17.
[147]. Ibid., p. 17.
[148]. Ibid., p. 34.
[149]. “Royal Asiatic Society Proceedings,” 1887–1888, p. 100.
[150]. “Reports on the Pearl Fisheries of 1905,” p. 40.