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ISLAND OF CEYLON.
and three hundred wounded. In officers we fuffered feverely.
The captains Lumley, Watt, and Wood fell in the aition. The
lofs of the French was enormous. Four hundred and twelve
men were killed, and fix hundred and feventy-fix were wound-
ed. The carnage on board the gallant Suffrein\ fhip, the Hero,
was unheard m any fight of any age, it was an unparalleled car-
nage. Many of the French captains had behaved ill, fix were
broke, and fent prifoners to the illand of Mauritius; and thus
ended the unavailing Slaughters in the Indian feas.
The Ganges of Ptolemy runs into this harbour.
Barticalo. Barticalo is the next port, lying in Lat. 70 40'. This alfo has
a ftrong fortrefs. Here the Butch firft landed in 1638, and took
it by capitulation from the Portuguese. The mountain, the
Monk's-hood, fome leagues inland, is a remarkable fea mark.
Barticalo may have been near the fite of the town called by
Ptolemy, Bocona; near it is a river which preferves the name,
being called by the natives Ko-bokan-oye, or the river of
Bokan *.
From the mouth of Kobakan river, the land trends to the
fouth-weft. Nothing remarkable occurs till we reach Malawe;
between that place and Tangala, is a large plain, thirty miles in
circumference, noted for the chace of elephants ; their antient
place of embarkation, the Geyrreweys of Elyphants van plaets,
is a little farther to the weft.
Matura. A little more to the weft is Matura, where the Butch have
a ftrong fortrefs; their policy is only to fortify the ports.
* D'Anville, Antiquite de l'Inde, p. 146.
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and three hundred wounded. In officers we fuffered feverely.
The captains Lumley, Watt, and Wood fell in the aition. The
lofs of the French was enormous. Four hundred and twelve
men were killed, and fix hundred and feventy-fix were wound-
ed. The carnage on board the gallant Suffrein\ fhip, the Hero,
was unheard m any fight of any age, it was an unparalleled car-
nage. Many of the French captains had behaved ill, fix were
broke, and fent prifoners to the illand of Mauritius; and thus
ended the unavailing Slaughters in the Indian feas.
The Ganges of Ptolemy runs into this harbour.
Barticalo. Barticalo is the next port, lying in Lat. 70 40'. This alfo has
a ftrong fortrefs. Here the Butch firft landed in 1638, and took
it by capitulation from the Portuguese. The mountain, the
Monk's-hood, fome leagues inland, is a remarkable fea mark.
Barticalo may have been near the fite of the town called by
Ptolemy, Bocona; near it is a river which preferves the name,
being called by the natives Ko-bokan-oye, or the river of
Bokan *.
From the mouth of Kobakan river, the land trends to the
fouth-weft. Nothing remarkable occurs till we reach Malawe;
between that place and Tangala, is a large plain, thirty miles in
circumference, noted for the chace of elephants ; their antient
place of embarkation, the Geyrreweys of Elyphants van plaets,
is a little farther to the weft.
Matura. A little more to the weft is Matura, where the Butch have
a ftrong fortrefs; their policy is only to fortify the ports.
* D'Anville, Antiquite de l'Inde, p. 146.
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