Two Happy Years in CeylonChatto & Windus, 1893 - 619 sider |
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Adam's Peak ancient Anuradhapura arrack Badulla Batticaloa beautiful beneath birds blossoms blue Brahmans Buddha Buddhist carried Ceylon Christian Church cinnamon cloth extra cloth limp cocoa-nut cocoa-palm coffee Colombo colour coolies course creatures Crown 8vo cultivation dagoba dark district Dutch elephants European Fcap feet flowers foliage footprint forest gardens Government green Happily heathen Hindoo honour huge hundred illustrated boards images inches India Isle Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan King lake land leaves lovely luxuriant miles Mission mountain native Negombo night NOVELS Nuwara Eliya palms Perahara pilgrims plain planters plants pleasant poor Portuguese Post 8vo precious priests proved Province Ratnapura relic river rock Rodiya round rupees sacred scarlet scene secure shrine Singhalese stone strange summit Tamil tanks temple thousand Tooth trees Trincomalee Veddahs village Vols whole wild women worship yellow young
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Side 550 - I am the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Side 407 - To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves — its organ thunder — Its dome the sky.
Side 104 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
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