Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and an Account of Its History and Antiquities, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1841 - 4 pages |
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Abhaa Adam's Peak Adikar amongst ancient animal Anooraadhapoora Anuradhapoora appear Bahoo Batticaloe British Buddhist building called capital ceremonies Ceylon chiefs Chilaw Cingalese history cocoa-nut Colombo commenced crocodiles cultivation dágoba Dalada Dambool death district Eheylapola elephant Europeans feet festival forest Gampola Gautama Buddha Government ground Hangwellé head height herd hundred India inhabitants inscriptions island jungle Kandian country Kandian King Kandy Kellania killed Kirti Kurunaigalla labour land length Mahasen Major Davie Malabar maritime provinces Mátalé ment miles Minneria monarch mountain native ornamented party passed persons Pilámé Taláwe pillars Polannarrua Pollonnaroowa poora possession priest principal proceeded Putlam Raja Singha Ramayan Reigned relic religion remains rest-house Rhodias rice river road Robert Brownrigg rock royal ruins sacred Sangatissa seen shooting side Sir Edward Barnes sovereign sportsman stone tank temple thousand throne tion trees Trinkomalee Turnour tusks Vijeya village Vishnu wihare wild Wilmot Horton worship
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Page 337 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 151 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page 305 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 30 - triumphant arms of England can be so humbled, as to fear " the menaces of such cowards as the Candians!
Page 349 - Adikar, these assertions are fully substantiated ; in which was exhibited the savage scene of four infant children, the youngest torn from the mother's breast, cruelly butchered, and their heads bruised in a mortar by the hands of their parent, succeeded by the execution of the woman herself, and three females more ; whose limbs being bound, and a heavy stone tied round the neck of each, they were thrown into a lake and drowned.
Page 291 - ... was evidently an object of intense veneration to all the assembled Buddhists, and by those of the Kandian provinces it is considered the palladium of their country ; they also believe the sovereign power of the island is attached to its possessors. It is a piece of discoloured ivory, slightly curved, nearly two inches in length, and one inch in diameter at the base ; from thence to the other extremity, which is rounded and blunt, it considerably decreases in size.
Page 249 - As soon as he touches the bottom, he disengages his foot from the stone, which is immediately drawn up, and suspended again to the projecting oar in the same manner as before, to be in readiness for the next diver. The diver...
Page 336 - Denmark blessed our chief, That he gave her wounds repose ; And the sounds of joy and grief From her people wildly rose, As death withdrew his shades from the day.
Page 165 - Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage above stage, high waving o'er the hills ; Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd, A boundless deep immensity of shade.
Page 358 - Spyes, that there is but little done, which he knows not of. And often he gives Command to expel all the women out of the City, not one to remain. But by little and little when they think his wrath is appeas'd, they do creep in again.