The Bungalow and the Tent; Or, a Visit to CeylonR. Bentley, 1854 - 311페이지 |
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agreeable alligators amongst amusement animal Apoo appearance attack Badula beautiful breakfast Buddhist buffalo bungalow camp caste certainly Ceylon cheroot Cingalese cobra cocoa-nut coffee Colombo companions considerable coolies danger death delicious destroy disgust distance doubt effect elephant England entirely especially excessively fancy feet female fever fire forest former fruit grass ground half hand head heard herd horsekeeper horses human hundred imagine immediately India island jungle Kandians Kandy labour land luxurious Malabar Malabar coast Malay miles milk monkeys Moormen morning mountains natives nature never Newera Elia night paddy fields Pariah dogs party passed patna peculiar perfectly phants picturesque planters Point de Galle present probably Punchy quadruped race reason remarkable resembling Rifle band river road scarcely seen shooting shot Sir Edward Barnes snakes sport supposed Tamul tank tion trackers trees tropical trunk turn Veddahs village whilst yards
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18 페이지 - The men of Dedan were thy merchants ; Many isles were the merchandise of thine hand ; They brought thee for a present horns of ivory, and ebony.
32 페이지 - Whilst the vicinity of tanks and lagoons of the most fetid and aguish character is perfectly healthy, that of rivers is equally deadly. The apparent contradiction of the usual laws of nature is accounted for by two reasons. The tanks are covered with various kinds of aquatic plants, which, by a kind Providence, are made to serve not only as filterers and purifiers of the water itself, but even as consumers of a considerable portion of the noxious exhalations that would otherwise poison the neighborhood.
32 페이지 - ... intricate nature of their course, the streams are unable to clear themselves, and this accumulation is left to decay in its bed and infest the surrounding country. There exists also another reason: the beds of the Ceylon rivers are almost invariably composed of sand, and the stream, instead of sweeping down the decomposed vegetable matter it holds in its waters, as must be the case in hard-bedded rivers, percolates through the sand, leaving the poisonous matter on the surface 'exposed to the...
229 페이지 - Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
31 페이지 - ... in fact, I doubt whether any advantage would induce a West Indian to locate in such a position. "However, in the matter of climate, Ceylon stands per se, and offers a total antithesis as regards the healthiness of certain districts of most other tropical countries.
88 페이지 - With that same vaunted name, Virginity. Beauty is Nature's coin; must not be hoarded, But must be current; and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss, Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself.
31 페이지 - A remarkable fact, and especially worthy of insertion in this place, is one recorded in Sullivan's visit to Ceylon. ' A large fresh-water lagoon, of a most green, slimy, tropical appearance, producing in abundance a lotus of almost Victoria Regia magnificence, stretches away to the back of the fort, and around are situated the bungalows of many of the Colombo merchants. The propinquity of this lake, would, in any other tropical country...
32 페이지 - The banks of the river, on the contrary, are rife with fever; the cause assigned is, that during the rainy seasons they swell to a great size, and collect the vegetable matter of a large extent of country; but owing to the rapidity with which they fall at the commencement of the dry season, and the winding and intricate nature of their course, the streams are unable to clear themselves, and this accumulation is left to decay in its bed and infest the surrounding country. There exists also another...
267 페이지 - angelical,' adorned with hues ' Which make the rose's blush of beauty pale And dim the rich geranium's scarlet blaze.
85 페이지 - ... excessive tightness of their comboys or petticoats, which confine the free movements of their hips almost as completely as tight straps do, or did (for perhaps the fashion has changed), the shoulders of our fashionable ladies in England. Although this description of plainness is very general in its application, there were some few young ladies who really were not hideous, and who, but for their beastly and universal habit of chewing betel, would have been quite tolerable. The women appear to...