(61) The next place noticed is the Island of Ceylon, which is designated +Palaisimoundou+, with the remark that its former name was +Taprobanê+. This is the Greek transliteration of Tâmraparnî, the name given by a band of colonists from Magadha to the place where they first landed in Ceylon, and which was afterwards extended to the whole island. It is singular, Dr. Caldwell remarks, that this is also the name of the principal river in Tinnevelly on the opposite coast of India, and he infers that the colony referred to might previously have formed a settlement in Tinnevelly at the mouth of the Tâmraparṇi river—perhaps at Kolkei, the earliest residence of the Pâṇḍya kings. The passage in the _Periplûs_ which refers to the island is very corrupt. 62.(_Returning to the coast_,) not far from the three marts we have mentioned lies +Masalia+, the seaboard of a country extending far inland. Here immense quantities of fine muslins are manufactured. From +Masalia+ the course of the voyage lies eastward across a neighbouring bay to +Dêsarênê+, which has the breed of elephants called Bôsarê. Leaving +Dêsarênê+ the course is northerly, passing a variety of barbarous tribes, among which are the +Kirrhadai+, savages whose noses are flattened to the face, and another tribe, that of the +Bargusoi+, as well as the +Hîppioprosôpoi+ _or_ +Makroprosôpoi+ (the horse faced or long faced men), who are reported to be cannibals. (62) Recurring to the mainland, the narrative notices a district called +Masalia+, where great quantities of cotton were manufactured. This is the +Maïsôlia+ of Ptolemy, the region in which he places the mouths of a river the +Maisôlos+, which Benfey identifies with the Godâvarî, in opposition to others who would make it the Krishnâ, which is perhaps Ptolemy’s +Tuna+. The name Maisôlia is taken from the Sanskrit Mausala, preserved in Machhlipatana, now Masulipatam. Beyond this, after an intervening gulf running eastward is crossed, another district occurs, +Desarênê+, noted for its elephants. This is not mentioned by Ptolemy, but a river with a similar name, the +Dôsarôn+, is found in his enumeration of the rivers which occur between the Maisôlos and the Ganges. As it is the last in the list it may probably be, as Lassen supposes, the Brâhmini. Our author however places Desarênê at a much greater distance from the Ganges, for he peoples the intermediate space with a variety of tribes which Ptolemy relegates to the East of the river. The first of these tribes is that of the +Kirrâdai+ (Sanskrit, Kirâtas), whose features are of the Mongolian type. Next are the +Bargusoi+, not mentioned by Ptolemy, but perhaps to be identified with the cannibal race he speaks of, the +Barousai+ thought by Yule to be possibly the inhabitants of the Nikobar islands, and lastly the tribe of the long or horse-faced men who were also cannibals.