A Description of Ceylon: Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants, and Natural Productions : with Narratives of a Tour Round the Island in 1800, the Campaign in Candy in 1803, and a Journey to Ramisseram in 1804, Volume 2Longman, 1807 - 360 pages |
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Ambassador ammonams appearance Aripo arrived banks Barbut Batticaloe Bengal artillery boats British bungaloe Candian territories Captain Ceylon choultry Cingalese coast Colonel Barbut Columbo command Condaatchy considerable coolies court of Candy crossed cultivated Dessauve detachment divers Dutch eight elephants enemy English erected Europeans feet fever fishery formed four garrison Governor half past Hambangtotte Hangwell hill hundred India inhabitants island jungle King of Candy King's labour land lascars leway Lieutenant Macdowall Majesty's 19th regiment Major Davie Malay regiment Manaar Matura miles monsoon Mootto Sawmy morning natives night o'clock A. M. officers oysters paddee ground pagoda palace palanquin Panoa party passed pearls person pounds sterling quantity rain Ramisseram rest-house river road rock salt sand second Adigar sent sepoys side soldiers stone tank Tengalle thick Thomas Christie tion trees Trincomallee troops twenty village Walleuwè wood