[Footnote 3: Mugalan, the Singhalese name of this disciple, is more pronounceable.

Asankhyeya denotes the highest sum for which a conventional term existsaccording to Chinese calculations equal to one followed by seventeen ciphers; according to Thibetan and Singhalese, equal to one followed by ninety-seven ciphers.

Thus, the Singhalese seem to have used flowers to an almost incredible extent, and one of their old chronicles tells us how the Ruanwellé dagoba270 feet highwas festooned with garlands from pedestal to pinnacle, till it had the appearance of one uniform bouquet.

"I am a native (Singhalese) of Kalutara in Ceylon.

His first sentence was twelve months for throwing sand in a Singhalese man's eyes and then robbing him of his comb.

" JANIS Was brought from his village by a Singhalese gentleman when quite a little boy, but, leaving his master, thought he would start life on his own account.

" Among the Singhalese, if a wife is sick and can no longer minister to her husband's comforts and pleasure he repudiates her.

Singhalese: utilitarian marriage.

Among the Singhalese a girl at her first menstruation is confined to a room, where she may neither see nor be seen by any male.

Arthur A. Perera, "Glimpses of Singhalese Social Life," Indian Antiquary xxxi, (1902)

Two-thirds of the people are Singhalese and Buddhists, there are 6000 Europeans.

MALDIVE ISLANDS (20), a chain of several hundred tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean stretching 550 m. southward from a point 300 m. SW. of Cape Comorin, 200 of which are inhabited; Malé is the residence of the sultan, who is a tributary of the governor of Ceylon; the natives are akin to the Singhalese, and occupy themselves gathering cowries, cocoa-nuts, and tortoise-shell for exportation.