An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and Its Dependencies, 2권T. and W. Boone, 1849 - 4페이지 |
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Adigaar animal Anuradhapoora appearance Badulla bank Batecalo beautiful bounded Buddha called caudal fin Ceylon CHAP chief coast cocoa-nut trees Colombo colour contains Coromandel coast Court cultivated dágobah Dissaves distance district dorsal fin Dutch Eastern eight elephants European fathoms feet fish forest formed former formerly four Galle gneiss Government Governor green ground head hills Hindoo inches inhabitants island Jaffna jungle Kalawa Kandian Kandian war Kandy king Korle Kurunaigalla labour lake land length Malabar Manaar Mátalé Matura miles monsoon mountain natives nilamé Northern Nuwara Ouva paddy paddy fields parrahs pass pattoo plains Point Pedro population Portuguese produce province rest-house rice river rix-dollars road rock rocky ruins Saffragam salt sand scenery side Singh Singhalese situated soil Southern species spot stone stream summit tail Tangalle tanks temple thick Trincomalee valley varieties Veddahs village Wanny Western Province wihare wild wood yellow
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816 페이지 - ... the invitation of the chiefs, and welcomed by the acclamations of the people, the forces of His Britannic Majesty have entered the Kandyan territory, and penetrated to the capital: Divine Providence has blessed their efforts with uniform and complete success. The ruler of the interior provinces has fallen into their hands, and the government remains at the disposal of His Majesty's representative.
818 페이지 - Kandyan provinces, and excluded and prohibited from entering those provinces on any pretence whatever, without a written permission for that purpose by the authority of the British Government, under the pains and penalties of martial law, which is hereby declared to be in force for that purpose ; and all male persons of the Malabar...
818 페이지 - ... the said provinces, is to be exercised according to established forms, and by the ordinary authorities; saving always the inherent right of Government to redress grievances and reform abuses in all instances whatever, particular or general, where such interposition shall become necessary.
772 페이지 - Wihares, or any other purpose, they sought for broad and handsome slips of talapat leaves, upon which they engraved the characters very elegantly and accurately, with the addition of various figures delineated upon them by way of ornament. All the slips had then two holes made in them, and were strung upon an elegantly twisted silken cord, and covered with two thin wooden boards. By means of the cord the leaves are held even together, and by being drawn out when required for use they are separated...
816 페이지 - ... instance was exhibited in the unprovoked and barbarous mutilation of ten innocent subjects of the British Government, by which seven of the number lost their lives— a measure of defiance calculated, and apparently intended, to put a final negative to every probability of friendly intercourse. If, therefore, in the present reverse of his fortunes and condition, it may be presumed the king would be found more accessible to...
817 페이지 - ... whose limbs being bound and a heavy stone tied round the neck of each, they were thrown into a lake and drowned. It is not, however, that under an absolute government unproved suspicion must usurp the place of fair trial, and the fiat of the ruler stand instead of the decision of justice ; it is not that a rash, violent, or unjust decree, or a revolting mode of execution is here brought to view...
773 페이지 - It is made of cut stones from three to six feet in length, and a foot and a half in breadth. The other three sides consist of ranges of steps and pyramidal structures, rising from thirty to one hundred and forty feet in height on the slope. The whole line of survey is two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six feet.
715 페이지 - ... this operation he endeavours to undo with his trunk some of the knots which have been made, and often attempts to give a destructive blow to the diminutive creatures so actively engaged in confirming his captivity. But the two tame animals, who are vigilantly observant of all his motions, never fail to prevent him from doing any mischief by gently lowering his proboscis with their own...
818 페이지 - Government in all cases, escept charges of murder, which shall be tried by special commissions to be issued from time to time by the Governor for that purpose : provided always, as to such charges of murder wherein any British subject may be defendant, who might be tried for the same...
817 페이지 - That the cruelties and oppressions of the Malabar Ruler in the arbitrary and unjust infliction of bodily tortures and the pains of death without trial, and sometimes without an accusation or the possibility of a crime, and in the general contempt and contravention of all civil rights, have become flagrant, enormous and intolerable, the acts and maxims of his Government being equally and entirely devoid of that justice, which should secure the safety of his subjects, and of that good faith which might...