 | 1834 - 222 pages
...the two sides of the leaf are grasped by the bearer. " This," says Knox, in his quaint manner, "is a marvellous mercy which Almighty God hath bestowed upon this poor and naked people in this rotnj/ country!" He ought to have added, in this hot country, for the heats in Ceylon, whose mean temperature... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...themselves from the intense heat of the sun, or the drenching rains; — ' a marvellous mercy,' says Knox, ' which Almighty God hath bestowed upon this poor and naked people in this rainy country.' The mild and passive character of the natives is singularly at va* riance with the unlimited and savage... | |
 | Curiosities - 1849 - 192 pages
...but the two sides of the leaf are grasped by a hearer. This, says Knox, in his quaint manner, " is a marvellous mercy which Almighty God hath bestowed upon this poor and naked people, in this rainy country.'1'1 He ought to have added, and in this hot country ; for the heats of Ceylon are frequently... | |
 | Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...a triangle : they lay them upon their heads, as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which IB convenient to make their way through the boughs and...this poor and naked people, in this rainy country." have alone sufficed to make a Brobdignag fan. Knox does not omit to mention the cocoa-nut tree, which... | |
 | Sophy Moody - Palms - 1864 - 474 pages
...wonderfully light. They cut them into pieces, and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round, almost like a circle; but being cut in pieces...this poor and naked people in this rainy country." So infinitely useful were these magnificent leaves that we wonder not to read that they were held in... | |
 | Alan Walters - Sri Lanka - 1892 - 340 pages
...wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces...this poor and naked, people in this rainy country." Hardly inferior in any respect is the Palmyra palm (BorassHsflabtlliformis), of which large numbers... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Sri Lanka - 1894 - 244 pages
...wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces...this poor and naked people in this rainy country." * Raja Singha II., king of Kandy in 1660-1680, had an extraordinary passion for detaining white men... | |
 | Frank Vincent - Botany - 1899 - 298 pages
...sides of the leaf are grasped by the bearer. " This," says Knox, in his quaint manner, " is a marvelous mercy which Almighty God hath bestowed upon this poor and naked people in this rainy country ! " He ought to have added in this hot country, for the heats of Ceylon, whose mean temperature is... | |
 | Robert Knox - Ceyton - 1911 - 590 pages
...in case it rain upon the march, these leaves make their Tents to ly under in the Night. A marvelous Mercy which Almighty God hath bestowed upon this poor and naked People in this Rainy Country! one or these I brought with me into England, and you have it described in the Figure. These Leaves... | |
 | Henry W. Cave - Business & Economics - 1994 - 502 pages
...is very strong and limber, and most wonderfully made for men's convenience to THE FERNERY. 87 tarry along with them, for though this leaf be thus broad...excellent taste. Beneath the shade of lofty trees pretty rivulets flow between banks carpeted with ferns of every kind, some so minute as to be hardly... | |
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... convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat ; soldiers all carry them, for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march, these... 
