 | 1837 - 682 페이지
...from the nolile families, it frequently happened that they were persons of inactivity and :nability, and being inexperienced in the affairs of the province...as other matters, by the provincial headman, or by tli<>."-<: of their household." From several conversations I had with different chiefs at Kandy, it... | |
 | Cecil J. R. LeMesurier - 1880 - 174 페이지
...contributions, and to pay fines, necessarily exacted the means of satisfying them from the people. 5th. — The chief officers being principally chosen from the...charge, were frequently guided in judicial as well as in other concerns by the provincial headmen or by those of their household, who were equally, if not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1832 - 510 페이지
...accurate account of the Kandyan country, that in his time (that is, in the latter part of the 17th century), it was the business of the inferior officers...conversations I had with different chiefs at Kandy, it appeared to me that this ignorance was rather put forward by them as matter of boast, and that they... | |
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Sir John Doyley also, in his Sketch of the Constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom, remarks, that " the chief officers being principally chosen from the noble families, it frequently happened that they were persons of inactivity and inability, and being inexperienced... 