. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. he British in 1796, and placed under the East India 1802, all the seaboard of Ceylon was allotted to the British Crown bythe treaty of Amiens ; but the centre of the island remained under theking of Kandy, the last of the Malabar line. His cruelty and tyranny,however, invited conquest; and in 1815 the British, at the request ofmany natives, „^ „. •^ The King of dis
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. he British in 1796, and placed under the East India 1802, all the seaboard of Ceylon was allotted to the British Crown bythe treaty of Amiens ; but the centre of the island remained under theking of Kandy, the last of the Malabar line. His cruelty and tyranny,however, invited conquest; and in 1815 the British, at the request ofmany natives, „^ „. •^ The King of disposses sed Kandy ?1 • 1 J. 1 dispossessed, him and took possession of his king-dom. Since then, withthe exception of someminor attempts at revolt,Ceylon has remained acrown colony of GreatBritain. • The great majorityof the Singhalese are ofAryan Hindu Thedescent, and Singhalese,speak Singhalese, a lan-guage allied to Pali, thelanguage of the Buddhistscriptures. These Hvelargely in the South,while the North and Eastis inhabited to a con-siderable ex- „ . Tamil-tent, by Tamil- speaking speaking peo- p®°p^®-pie, mainly of Dravidiandescent, including manyimmigrants from South-ern India, and also some. SINGHALESE WOMEN. THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. of Arab descent. The inhabitants generally are not tall, but of good proportions, light to dark-brown, dark-eyed, and black-haired. A large number of the people of Arab or Malay descent are Mahome- Arabs. ^^^^^^ although not very fanatical; but the TamOs are Hindus in religion. The Singhalese generally are Buddhists, representing a
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