Palms & Pearls, Or, Scenes in Ceylon

Adam Adam's Peak animal Anuradhapoora areca beautiful Bêche-de-mer betel bird blossoms Brahmans brown Buddha Buddhist called century Ceylon champac cinnamon climb coco coffee Colombo colour coolie creature dagoba dark Dutch earth eggs elephant eyes feet high feet long fish flesh flowers foot footprint fruit Ganga Gautama Gautama Buddha gems gneiss green growing hand head height inches long India insects island Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan king known land large numbers leaf leaves less live London look Malabar Marco Polo miles mosquitoes mountain native never night NOTE Nuwara Eliya oyster palm pearl oyster pearls pilgrims plant Pollonaruwa Portuguese pounds Prakrama priests rock round rubies sacred sapphire says seen shells Singha Singhalese snake species spots Sri-pada stand stem stone taliput Tamul taste temple Tennent thick Thuparamaya tree Trincomalee tropics variety Veddahs vegetable wanderoo wood yellow