Two happy years in Ceylon . Steps . . ,, 305 Five-Headed Naga at the Bathing-place, Mihintale . ,, 506 TIVO HAPPY YEARS IN CEYLON The Wata-dAg6, or Round Treasure-house, Pollanarua to face page 390Looking to the Sat-mahal-prasada, or seven-storied building The Jetawanarama AND THE KiriViharaat Pollanarua ,, 393 The Gal Vihara : Rock Temple at Pollanarua . • ,, 395- Sitting Buddha is 15 feet above pedestal; erect, 23 feet; re-cumbent, 46 feet The Saami Rock at Trincomalee—Worship at Sunset The Lily Shore, near Trincomalee .... The Nilwalla River at Matara .... Cocoa Palms: Shore of Colombo Lake
Two happy years in Ceylon . Steps . . ,, 305 Five-Headed Naga at the Bathing-place, Mihintale . ,, 506 TIVO HAPPY YEARS IN CEYLON The Wata-dAg6, or Round Treasure-house, Pollanarua to face page 390Looking to the Sat-mahal-prasada, or seven-storied building The Jetawanarama AND THE KiriViharaat Pollanarua ,, 393 The Gal Vihara : Rock Temple at Pollanarua . • ,, 395- Sitting Buddha is 15 feet above pedestal; erect, 23 feet; re-cumbent, 46 feet The Saami Rock at Trincomalee—Worship at Sunset The Lily Shore, near Trincomalee .... The Nilwalla River at Matara .... Cocoa Palms: Shore of Colombo Lake Coffee Fields on the Slopes of Allegalla Peak On the summit there is a partly natural indentation whichduplicates the Footprint Adams Peak prom Maskeliya 407421 445476500 533 PAGE The Castle Jermyn . 77 The Worshipful Tooth 207 Buddha Guarded by the Coera, Rock Temple, Pass . 293 A Forest Sanctuary 399 Offerings of red pottery to the God of the Tank at Minery Talipot Palm in Blossom On covet Ik m ( LA L O N. o TWO HAPPY YEARS IN CEYLON ^ INTRODUCTORY There are perhaps few families in the Mother Country to whom thefarther corners of Great Britain have (from the colonising or sportinginstincts of its various members) become more really familiar to theimagination of the younger branches than that to which I waswelcomed, as its twelfth addition. Thus about the time of my first introduction to the immortalRobinson Crusoe, my eldest brother Penrose returned from Canada,soon to be followed by my second brother Roualeyn, who had madehis mark as the pioneer of all the Lion-hunters who since then haveravaged the hunting-grounds of Southern Africa. Then two more of the home brood started to carve their fortunesin far countries. Almost simultaneously my fourth and fifth brothers,John and William, sailed for Ceylon and Bombay, where the lattertamed wild men • and slew wild beasts, while the former settleddown to sober cocoa-nut planting in the neighbourhood of Batticaloa ;and t
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