Almost five centuries ago, a sailboat carrying some Portuguese sailors drifted near the South-West coast of the small island then known in the world as Taprobane or Ceylan. The Portuguese sailors, well-known for their carousing habits, overslept as usual only to be wakened up by the sound of a cock. Indeed, there was land and a bay very nearby. They slowly moved their ship towards the land that was and colony that was to be. Soon they set their feet on the beach of the sea-port Galle.
Unconfirmed sources say that this day was the turning point of the isle's history which eventually succumbed to the might of Potuguese some few years hence. The bird later became the symbol of the Galle municipality.
And, five centuries later, again in a misty morning, a person hailing from that maritime town, relates that story, sitting before a computer, for the world to read.