adapanaar

Updated: May 16, 2025

On my arrival at Aripo, the pearl-divers, under the orders of their Adapanaar, put to sea, and commenced the examination of the banks. The persons engaged in this calling are chiefly Tamils and Moors, who are trained for the service by diving for chanks.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon