[141]. “Reports on the Pearl Fishery for 1904,” p. 7.

[142]. “Reports on the Pearl Fishery for 1905,” p. 23.

[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.