Old Ceylon, sketches of Ceylon life in the olden time:

Capper John 1814?-1898

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• Sri Lanka

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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• <THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELESDUM3ERA..THE VALE OFOLD CEYLON,
CEYLON LIFE INTHE OLDENTIME :SKETCHESOF
BY
JOHN CAPPER,
AUTHOR OF THE "THREE PRESIDENCIES OF INDIA,"
THE "gold &C.fields," &C.,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CEYLON ARTISTS.
Colombo :
CEYLON TIMES PRESS
1877.COLOMBO:
PRESSPRINTED BY THE CE7L0N TIMES LIMITED.COMPANY,DS
' °C
wereof the Sketches infollowing published*^^ANY
" Householdthe volumes of Dicke2^s' Words,"early
more than a of a Some are nowago.quarter century
for first but all refer to athe time, nearly periodgiven
between and ago.thirty forty years
""
that these of Old CeylonIn the pictureshope
an interestbe to some of those who takemay acceptable
in our beautiful island arenow so
, they brought together,
notthat the of times may pass awaymemory bye-gone
for ever.
1878.Colombo, September,
IK.iM^rHCONTENTS.
PAGE,
of FlowersThe Garden 1fBlustratedJ
WeddingOur Cook's 17
Planting in the Olden TimeCoffee 31
Dutch 45Colombo (BlustratedJ
Our Old Clerk 52
A Galle Legend 57
""A Peep at the Perahera 72
Old 82English Colombo (lUustrated)
"" Old Joe 87
Phillip 92of Brassfounder Street
102The Fine Old Native Gentleman (Illustrated)
108HuLFSDORP (Illustrated)
120The Cinnamon Peeler
125Elephants and How to Catch Them
140A Happy Valley (Illustrated)
Our Produce Dealer 147
Forty- 154Number two (Illustrated)
162Our Coffee Mills
A New Day 174Year's (Elustrated)
Our . 183National Tree
Kandyan's Captive 194The
201My Pearl Fishing Expedition (Illustrated^