Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . d Delegate Apostolic. Extract referred to. O Capitao Mor mandou abrir em uma rocha defronfce da Bahia as quinas de Portugal memoria q. posto che gasta do tempo no nossasempre alii permanecio. Fernao de QueirozConquista de CeylaoLivro 2, Capitulo 1. * His Excellency the Delegate Apostolic, in a previous letter datedNovember 15, 1898, before he inspected the stone, states : The carving ofthe Royal coat of arms on a rock was considered by the ancient Portuguesenavigators as a very solemn act, something like hoisting the national flag,and
Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . d Delegate Apostolic. Extract referred to. O Capitao Mor mandou abrir em uma rocha defronfce da Bahia as quinas de Portugal memoria q. posto che gasta do tempo no nossasempre alii permanecio. Fernao de QueirozConquista de CeylaoLivro 2, Capitulo 1. * His Excellency the Delegate Apostolic, in a previous letter datedNovember 15, 1898, before he inspected the stone, states : The carving ofthe Royal coat of arms on a rock was considered by the ancient Portuguesenavigators as a very solemn act, something like hoisting the national flag,and there was no reason whatever to carve it in the year 1561, which wasrather a dull and uneventful one in the history of the Portuguese inCeylon.—G. A. J. 24 JOURNAL, (CEYLON). [VOL. XVI. VII.—Mr. F. H. de Vos to Mr. G. A. Joseph. I have read uncorrected proof of correspondence relative to thePortuguese Arms engraved on the rock recently discovered in the Fortof Colombo, and should like to offer the following remarks :— As regards the symbols,. (which are, by the way, not correctly reproduced in the lithograph), itwill appear that the first two are dotted with a small cross and the thirdwith a round dot, and the fourth has no dot at all. If these symbolsstand for 1501 the first and fourth symbols should be similarly written,but they are not. Then, why should,the first two symbols be dottedwith a cross unless they stand for Jesus Salvator ? If the fourthsymbol be taken to be the ninth letter of the alphabet, this will explainwhy it differs from the first symbol. Again, was it customary in those days {circa 1500) to dot numerals ?This can be answered by an expert on manuscript and handwriting ofthat age. VIII.—Mr. A. E. Buultjens to Mr. G. A. Joseph. I have since carefully examined the stone on the spot more thanonce. It seems quite clear that on the right of the coat of arms whatwe find is the date 1501, and not the letters IS O I, nor the date , there is
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