RODYAH, a forest race amongst the Kandyans. They are skilful in the manufacture of rope from the black fibre of the leaf-stalk of the Caryota urens. Physically- speaking, they are much the finest race in Ceylon, but they are looked upon by the rest as' out-castes, unfit to be communicated with. At one thne they were liable to be put to death if they touched or approached the higher castes.—Egerton's TOW' in India, i. p. 121.
ROE, Sin THOMAS, was sent as ambassador from James of England and vr. of Scotland, to the Emperor Jahangir. He sailed from Gravesend 24th January 1615, and landed at Surat with great pomp, with eighty men-at-arms in his train, and arrived at Ajmir on the 23d December, and was received at the court with unusual honour on the 10th January 1616. After a residence of two years, he obtained permission of the emperor for the English to trade at Surat. Be accompanied
the emperor to Mandu, and left him in the end of 1618. He praises the magnificence of the com.t, speaks in high terms of the courtesy and hospitality of the nobility, and he was treated by the emperor as a friend, joining the emperor's drinking parties. He says the great men, as a.class, were all open to corruption. His Journal of his Voyage to the East Indies, and Observations there during his Residence at the Moghul Court in 1615-18, was published in Paris in 1663.—Elphinstone, pp. 490-92.
ROE. Fish roe, red fish, and sardines arc Malay condiments, and the species used in the preparation aro Alausa toli (Ikan trubok), En graulis Brownii (Bunga ayer or badah), Dussu inieria acuta (Ttunban-bulat), • and Clupeonia. perforata (Tamban-nepes or batub).—Cantor.