An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and Its Dependencies, Volume 1 |
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An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and Its Dependencies Charles Pridham No preview available - 2019 |
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Adigaar Anuradhapoora appear army arrival attended Badulla Batecalo body Brahmins British brother Buddha Buddhist called capital caste ceremony Ceylon CHAP chiefs cinnamon cloth coast cocoa-nut coffee Colombo colony command Coromandel coast court cultivation dagobah Dalada death Dissave district Don John dress Dutch duty Eheylapola elephants Emperor enemy European favour fire fishery force Gaimono Gautama Gautama Buddha gods gold Government Governor ground hands head headmen honour India inhabitants interior island Jaffna Kandian Kandy King King's Korles labour land Maha Major Davie Malabar Malays manner maritime provinces ment miles Modeliars monarch native Negombo occasion offered officers oysters palace party pearl person Pilámé Portuguese possession Praackrama present priests prince principal Ptolemy punishment Raja Singha received reign relic religion respect rice royal sent Singhalese slaves soon succeeded success Talawé Taprobane temples throne tion Tissa trees Trincomalee troops Upasampada Veddahs village whole wihare
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Page 249 - Her chest should be capacious; her breasts, firm and conical, like the yellow cocoa-nut, and her waist small—almost small enough to be clasped by the hand. Her hips should be wide; her limbs tapering; the soles of her feet, without any hollow, and the surface of her body in general soft, delicate, smooth, and rounded, without the asperities of projecting bones and sinews.
Page 373 - Ceylon will produce the article of cotton equally well, and, when the comparatively small amount of capital required is considered, I doubt not it may even produce the article cheaper than we can in America, where a large sum must be laid out at once for...
Page 187 - British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of his subjects, and, by the violation of every religious and moral law, become an object of abhorrence to mankind.
Page 216 - Laws. but the Will of the King, and whatsoever proceeds out of his mouth is an immutable Law. Nevertheless they have certain antient usages and Customes that do prevail and are observed as Laws ; and Pleading them in their Courts and before their Governors will go a great way.
Page 249 - Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the peacock,; long, reaching to the knees, and terminating in graceful curls; her eyebrows should resemble the rainbow; her eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals of the blue manillaflower. Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like coral on the young leaf of the iron-tree. Her teeth should be small, regular, and closely set, and like jessamine buds.
Page 205 - ... and of an unwholesome climate, producing disease. The sufferings of the natives were of a more severe kind and complicated nature.
Page 454 - Countrey come and buy it of them. They never Till any ground for Corn, their Food being only Flesh. They are very expert with their Bows.
Page 293 - ... fate and necessity, to which they seem to refer all changes in the moral and physical world. They appear to be Materialists in the strictest sense of the term, and to have no notion of pure spirit or mind.
Page 326 - When the elephant appeared coming out of the temple-gate, two lines of magnificent elephants, forming a double line in front of the entrance, knelt down and thus remained; while the multitude of people, joining the points of their fingers, raised their arms above their heads, and then bent forward, at the same time uttering in full deep tones the shout of Sadhu : this, joined and increased by those at a distance, swelled into a grand and solemn sound of adoration. The elephant bearing the relic,...
Page 85 - They have tubes" (said the same account) " which make a noise like thunder, when it breaks upon Jugandere Parivata, and even louder ; and a globe of iron shot from one of them, after flying some leagues, will break a castle of marble or even of iron.