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acres Adam's Peak Admiralty House amongst appearance attracted Badulla bamboo banks beautiful bungalows Ceylon tea climate coach coast coconut Colombo coolies cultivation curious Dimbula distance district drive Dutch elephant elevation European extensive factory famous fields flowers forest fruit Galle Gampola gardens golf Hakgalla harbour height hills hundred illustration interest island Jaffna journey jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelani Valley labour lake land landscape large number leaf leaves lofty luxury magnificent Maskeliya MÁTALÉ Matara miles Moratuwa mountain Nanu Oya native notice Nuwara Eliya palms pass patana Peradeniya PERAHARA photograph picture picturesque plains planting plucking province Pussellawa putting green railway Rambodde ravines reach rest-house river road rock Royal Mail RUANWELLA Saami sacred scene scenery seen side Singhalese sport steep stems stream Street Talipot Tamil Tarshish tea estates Temple thousand feet town traveller tree ferns trees Trincomali tropical Udapussellawa village visitor wild
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Page 81 - The whole leaf-spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle ; they lay them upon their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets.
Page 440 - ... apes is the same in both languages, and the Sanskrit " ibha '' ivory, is identical with the Tamil " ibam" " Thus by geographical position, by indigenous productions, and by the fact of its having been from time immemorial the resort of merchant ships from Egypt, Arabia, and Persia on the one side, and India, Java, and China on the other, Galle seems to present a combination of every particular essential to determine the problem so long undecided in biblical dialectics, and thus to present data...
Page 310 - They would way-lay our parties, and fire on them from inaccessible heights, or from the ambush of an impenetrable jungle; they would line the paths through which we had to march with snares of different kinds, such as spring guns and spring bows, deep pits, lightly covered over, and armed with thorns, spikes, &c., and in every instance that an opportunity offered, they shewed no mercy and gave no quarter.
Page 440 - Thus by geographical position, by indigenous productions, and by the fact of its having been from time immemorial the resort of merchant ships from Egypt, Arabia, and Persia on the one side, and India, Java, and China on the other, Galle seems to present a combination of every particular essential to determine the problem so long undecided in biblical dialectics, and to establish its own identity with the Tarshish of the sacred historians, the mart so long frequented by the ships of Tyre and Judea.
Page 121 - In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky and precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these -some persons attain the summit, where the tomb of Adam, our first parent, is reported to be found. Such is the account .given by the Saracens.
Page 153 - Each compartment accommodates about four coolies, and it is obvious that they do not rejoice in the luxury of much space ; but their ideas of comfort are not ours, and they are better pleased to lie huddled together upon the mud floors of these tiny hovels than to occupy superior apartments. Their lot does not call for pity or sympathy, for in many respects they are a favoured class.
Page 435 - ... wonder called forth by its loveliness remains vivid and unimpaired. If, as is frequently the case, the ship approaches the land at daybreak, the view recalls, but in an intensified degree, the emotions excited in childhood by the slow rising of the curtain in a darkened theatre to disclose some magical triumph of the painter's fancy, in all the luxury of colouring and all the glory of light. The sea, blue as sapphire, breaks upon the fortified rocks which form the entrance to the harbour ; the...
Page 80 - The first is the tallipot ; it is as big and tall as a ship's mast. pnt:iher»re r & " " «« of the an(j very straight, bearing only leaves, which are of great use and benefit to this people ; one single leaf being so broad and large, that it will cover some fifteen or twenty men, and keep them dry when it rains.
Page 410 - I bade him ask the people of the town for help to carry my father to the grave ; because I could not understand their language : who immediately brought forth a great rope they used to tie their cattle withal, therewith to drag him by the neck into the woods ; saying " that they could afford me no other help, unless I would pay for it.