XXVII. CHRISTIAN WORK IN CEYLON

XXVII. CHRISTIAN WORK IN CEYLON

Salvation Army—Work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel— Work of the Church Missionary Society—Cyclone in 1884—Work in Pallai and the Wannie—Converts from Hindooism—Tamil Coolie Mission— Christian lyrics—Kandyan itinerancy—Converts from Buddhism—Mission at Cotta—Trinity College, Kandy—Summary.

However deeply we sympathise with the efforts of ‘all who love our Lord in sincerity,’ we cannot but regret that, considering the number of agencies[230] already at work in this Isle (where Christian growth has been so cruelly impeded by the jealousies of successive gardeners), the Salvation Army should have introduced a fresh element of confusion by selecting for their campaign, not purely heathen villages, but several in which much good work had already been done. Still more unfortunately, a marked characteristic of some of their leaders has been such violent antagonism to other Christian denominations, that one who has hitherto been a subscriber to the funds of the Army has recently declared their position in Ceylon to be that of persecutors and hinderers of Christian workers.

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Footnote 230:

I regret that lack of space compels me to omit all details of the Presbyterian and Baptist Missions. The latter numbers about 6,000 adherents, of whom 550 are communicants. The former has 2,500 adherents, of whom about 1,000 are communicants.

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Sad as such dissensions must ever be, they are tenfold more distressing in presence of those whom we would fain win from the worship of idols and sacred cattle and the reverent use of cow-dung, and who very justly think that Christians should at least agree amongst themselves before they try to teach others.

For the same reason it is deeply to be regretted that even within the fold of the Church of England the converts should have been perplexed by ‘High Church’ and ‘Low Church’ questions, resulting for a while in serious difficulties. These, happily, have in a great measure subsided, and though it is certain that this division of the house against itself expedited the disestablishment of the Anglican Church from its position as the Established Church of the Isle, there is good reason to hope that in this, as in other matters, apparent evil has been overruled for good, the necessity for united action having led to a more perfect fusion of the interests of all members of the Episcopal Church, and to such resolute effort to meet the consequent pecuniary difficulties, that there is now little doubt that when the last props of State support are removed, the Episcopal Church of Ceylon will be found stronger and healthier than in her previous condition. Already she has her own Synod, her own constitution, and is generally well afloat.

It is worthy of note that she has thus been compelled to take up the self-same work which she has for many years been urging the native Church to undertake, namely, not only the entire support of its own institutions, but also the duty of contributing the needful funds for sending teachers to its heathen countrymen.

So since June 30, 1886, all State-aid has been withdrawn, with the exception of the stipends of such Government chaplains, Episcopal and Presbyterian, as were appointed prior to July 1, 1881, such aid, of course, ceasing with the individual lives.

The total number of clergy of the Episcopal Church in the diocese of Colombo (in other words, in Ceylon) is now seventy-one. Of these, thirty-four (i.e., eighteen European and sixteen native) are in the service of the Church Missionary Society, and fifteen (including nine natives) in that of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The native clergy are Singhalese, Tamil, and Burgher; some are half-Burgher, half-Singhalese.

Let us briefly glance at the work of the two great Societies whose representatives have striven so earnestly to build up this Church.

The CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY began work here in 1818. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL, generally known as the S.P.G., followed suit in 1840.

The S.P.G. has from the beginning imported very few European clergy. It has rather aimed at assisting the Government chaplains (whose recognised official duty was simply to minister to such as were already Christians), and by enabling them to extend their sphere among the surrounding heathen, give a missionary character to their work also.

In 1845 the Isle, which had previously been included in the See of Madras, was made a separate diocese, and Dr. Chapman was consecrated first Bishop of Colombo. By his exertions and liberal gifts, aided by the S.P.G., St. Thomas College at Colombo was founded and endowed with a special view to training native clergy and schoolmasters.

Here English, Singhalese, and Tamil lads receive most careful religious teaching, combined with such high secular education as may fit them for any profession; but the College maintains its original missionary character, inasmuch as it furnishes almost all the native clergy in the employment of the Society, and also supplies the ever-increasing demand for schoolmasters.[231]

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Footnote 231:

For details of this college see Chapter ii.

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A high-class school for girls has for some years occupied a pleasant bungalow close to the Cathedral, and the Society has also established a female boarding-school at Matara, which is a very important centre of Mission-work, the attendance at the various schools being upwards of 1,100.

A very interesting S.P.G. work is the large orphanage of Buonavista, near Galle, of which I have already spoken.[232] It supplies Christian teachers, both male and female, for the surrounding village-schools. About one sixth of the children attending these are Christians, and a much larger proportion are removed by their relations so soon as they evince a strong bias in favour of Christianity. Then Buddhist priests are called in, and a period of home persecution ensues, which, however, rarely succeeds in extinguishing the light thus early kindled.

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Footnote 232:

See p. 430.

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Apart from these centres, a quiet work is progressing in many places, such as Badulla, and several of the neighbouring villages, where a special effort is now being made for the extension of Mission-work in the hitherto neglected province of Uva. About 400 children have been gathered into the Anglican schools in this district.

To return to the earliest efforts on behalf of Ceylon by the Church Missionary Society. Between 1818 and 1821 work was commenced at four points, which have ever since been important centres. These were Jaffna, in the extreme north; Kandy, in the centre of the Isle; Cotta, near Colombo, and Baddigama, in the extreme south.

In the first instance, the Rev. Joseph Knight was sent to commence work at Jaffna. Finding the Americans and Wesleyans already in the field, he established himself at Nellore, in the immediate neighbourhood. There, six years later, he was joined by the Rev. W. Adley, and together they studied, and taught, and preached; but seven more years of patient work elapsed ere their hearts were cheered by making a single convert.

At length, in 1830, Mr. Adley’s Tamil horse-keeper renounced idolatry and sought baptism, and ere that year closed a little band of ten Christians formed the nucleus of the future Church. One of these, named Matthew Philips, who had been working with Mr. Knight as his pundit ever since his arrival in the Isle, became the first catechist, and from that day till the hour of his death at Christmas 1884 (when he had completed his ninetieth year), he proved a zealous and eloquent preacher and most devoted Christian.

Such was the story of this Mission for the first twelve years. Ten more elapsed, and the Church members had increased to twenty-five, but as yet did not include a single woman. Ten years later the congregation at Nellore had increased to eighty, a new station was opened at Kopay in the immediate neighbourhood, and an old Portuguese Church at Chundicully, also in the neighbourhood, was made over to the Mission, together with its congregation of Protestant Burghers. By degrees other stations have been included, and a large number of schools both for boys and girls have been established, and in these all the teachers are Christians; and thus the tree whose early growth was so slow has fairly taken root. A very important detail was the commencement in 1842 of a girls’ boarding-school at Nellore. Here about 270 girls have received careful training, and many have become wives of the native clergy and schoolmasters.

The Jaffna peninsula is the extreme north-west corner of Ceylon, a dead level, palm-clad plain, twenty miles wide by thirty-six in length.

A glance at the map will show better than pages of description how strangely the sea has intersected the land between this plain and the main Isle, forming truly labyrinthine lagoons.

In October and December 1884 this district was devastated by terrible cyclones, which, following on a period of prolonged drought and short crops, proved terribly trying to the people. The first of these appalling tempests was heralded by a pale-green sunset sky, flushing blood-red on the western horizon. It resulted in the total destruction of 66,000 cocoa-nut, palmyra, and areca-palms, and about 7,000 other valuable trees, chiefly fruit-trees. On the morning after the cyclone the peninsula resembled a newly-felled jungle, and even the streets were blocked by fallen trees, including about a hundred of the beautiful yellow suriyas,[233] torn up by the roots. About 120,000 plantain and banana bushes were ruined. Even the trees that survived were stripped of foliage and appeared as if scorched by fire. Fourteen thousand head of cattle, sheep, goats, and buffaloes were killed, as were also twenty-eight human beings. Thousands of crows were found dead with their wings all twisted.

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Footnote 233:

Thespesia populnea, formerly called Hybiscus.

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The great breakwater which protected the town, the embankment, and sea-wall were alike destroyed; the road skirting the sea for many miles was washed away, as were also bridges and culverts, and thousands of houses of the poorest sort were damaged. Twenty-seven vessels are known to have been wrecked; some brigs and small schooners were carried miles inland, and the town was strewn with wreckage. Small craft innumerable perished, and hundreds of fishing and cargo boats were found in gardens and fields, while some were left in the streets or on the half-ruinous verandahs of houses! Others, which were recognised as belonging to neighbouring islands, were found washed ashore.

Equally lamentable was the destruction of the rice-crops. In the October storm hundreds of acres of paddy-land, which had been carefully ploughed and manured, and were all ready for sowing, were so flooded as to resemble only a vast lake. When the waters subsided, the wretched farmers did their best to repair the damage, but the December cyclone effectually blasted their hopes. Though in point of fury it was but as an echo of the first, nevertheless the prevalence of unseasonable rain destroyed the rice-crops and ruined the gardens.

A curious incident of the cyclone was the fall of the steeple of Kopay Church, which was blown over, and in its fall exactly filled up an adjacent well, a very grave loss in that region of droughts.

For a considerable period after this the poverty of the people was such that many of the children used to come to school half-famished, and for some time attendance was seriously diminished.

In this extremity many of the school-teachers shared their pittance with the hungriest of their flock, but the suffering of all was severe. Of course, diminished school attendance involves a reduction in Government grants and in the salaries of the teachers, and this again, in the American Mission, reacts on the modest income of the native pastor, which is partly dependent on the offerings of the teachers, who, it seems, are in the habit of devoting one-tenth of their salary to the service of the Church.

About twenty years ago very decisive efforts were made by the missionaries in order to root out any lingering idea that temporal advantage attached to the profession of Christianity. In order still more strongly to counteract such an impression, the native Christians were urged, so far as lay in their power, not only to undertake the support of their own institutions, but also to contribute the needful funds for sending teachers to their heathen brethren. The result of this movement has been, that whilst a limited number of mere professors relapsed into heathenism, the majority have become very much more decided and zealous, and the native Church has become in every respect healthier and stronger.

This has notably been the case in the Northern Province (of which Jaffna is the capital), where the effects of Mission-work on Hindooism present a striking contrast to the results effected in the south of the Isle, where only, as it were, the fringe of Buddhism has as yet been touched. And yet those most practically acquainted with the work say that even in North Ceylon ‘heathenism is still so gross and rampant that Mission agencies can hardly count the battle there to be much more than begun.’ But those who are Christians are in real earnest; and so, notwithstanding the poverty of the people, a Native Missionary Association was formed in the autumn of 1883, which now supports several native teachers to assist in the work commenced in 1862 by the Church Missionary Society in two of the dreariest and hitherto most neglected districts of the Isle, namely, the Wannie and Pallai.

The latter is only about twenty miles from Jaffna, a sandy tract of cocoa-nut plantations and malarious fever-haunted jungle. So unhealthy is the climate, that of all the Mission agents who have been sent to work here, not one has escaped the jungle-fever. The population numbers about 10,000 persons, and in all this district there is but one medical man, whose primary duty is to look after the planters. As for the people, finding small benefit from their own medicine-men, and assuming all manner of sickness and trouble to be the visitation of offended evil spirits, they at once call in diviners and devil-dancers, who distract the poor sufferer with their truly ‘infernal’ noise, or else they make a pilgrimage to some favourite devil-temple. Anxious relations bring the patient a drink of foul water, which has washed the feet of some filthy fakir, and which is deemed precious medicine.[234]

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Footnote 234:

For astounding details of sorcery and criminal preparation of charms by a native doctor, see Emerson Tennant’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. pp. 544-548.

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Here, indeed, is a fallow field awaiting medical missionaries endowed with such love for their suffering fellow-creatures as to induce them to face existence in such uninviting surroundings. It is, however, certain that men born in the Isle might face the climate with less danger than Europeans, and it is to be hoped that the Medical College at Colombo, which is training so large a number of students, may yield the right men. Certainly no other form of mission is so certain to go straight to the hearts of these poor villagers, and it is satisfactory to learn that the Jaffna Medical Mission has now been commenced in real earnest, and is to be under control of the directors of the Jaffna College (i.e., missionaries and native Christians in connection with the three Missions).

Dr. Marston, formerly of Mildmay (London), has gone out to assume charge of this great work, but as yet is the only missionary-physician among the 316,000 inhabitants of the Northern Province; and what that means may be inferred from the fact that within two months in 1888-1889 no less than 2,000 persons died in Jaffna during an epidemic of malignant fever, and such visitations of fever, small-pox, and cholera are by no means rare, and invariably carry off thousands, who perish from ignorance of the simplest laws of medicine.

Still more unattractive than Pallai is the dreary Wannie district, a name chiefly associated with that of the virulent Wannie fever, which not only incapacitates its victims at the time, but is very difficult to shake off. This district comprises an area of about 14,000 square miles, and its population, which averages one to the square mile, is scattered along the sea-coast, and in about 200 small villages inland, each surrounded by swampy rice-fields, the irrigation of which is a constant care, as any failure of the water-supply from the village tank involves famine. Most of these villages take their name from the tank; hence the frequent termination of ‘Colom,’ a tank, e.g. Choendic-Colom, Sundi-Colom.

These wretched people suffer terribly from pleurisy and from a swelling in the glands of the throat, but worst of all from the fearful parangi or karayo, that horrible disease, somewhat resembling leprosy in its most loathsome form, which is aggravated by bad water and scanty fare. Wherever the restoration of the ancient tanks has blessed a district with a renewed water-supply and consequent abundant crops, then this awful disease in a great measure disappears.

The people are described as being sunk mentally, morally, and physically to the deepest degradation. Their faith is Hindooism of the very lowest type, with a large admixture of devil-worship.

In this unpromising field, agents of the Church Mission were sent to commence work at Mullaitivo, a town on the east coast about seventy miles south of Jaffna, and at Vavania-Velan-Colom, a large inland village, about fifty miles from Mullaitivo. From these centres, evangelistic work of all sorts has been carried to the surrounding districts. Here, as in the Pallai district, schools have been established, and several of the most promising converts have been taken to the Training Institution at Kopay, that they may eventually return as teachers to their own countrymen. Thus an influence has gradually been created, and prejudice so far overcome that now no opposition is offered to the Christian teachers; on the contrary, their message is heard with eager attention, and in several cases devil-dancers, and even the priests of the devil-temples, have been among the earliest converts, although their acceptance of Christ involved the sacrifice of their sole means of living—a very strong test of faith.

Indeed, if the offertory by which this native Mission is supported could tell the story of self-denial by which many of its small sums have been obtained, no better proof could be given of how thoroughly in earnest these poor Christians are; in fact, in the year when extreme poverty was aggravated by cyclones, the subscriptions, so far from diminishing, actually increased. Amongst its items are gifts from several young men, who have been trained in the Institution, of sums equal to one-half, one-third, or one-twelfth of their first year’s salary as schoolmaster.

In the records of this work we occasionally obtain a touching glimpse of some of the difficulties which beset the Hindoo, whose reason and heart alike incline to the Christian faith. Foremost among these are the claims of deceased relations, and the supposed cruelty to these involved in omitting the ancestral offerings; for as the dead of the last three generations are believed to be entirely dependent on the living for their supplies and deliverance from purgatory, and as only a son can officiate at the funeral rites of his father, it is evident that when, by becoming a Christian, a man incapacitates himself from fulfilling these obligations, he is doing a grievous wrong to the dead, whom he is most bound to reverence. Hence we hear of the ‘great fortitude’ shown by a convert in refusing to take his part in the heathen rites at his father’s funeral, and we know what tears, entreaties, and persecutions he must have withstood from all the women of the family.[235]

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Footnote 235:

In ‘The Himalayas and Indian Plains’ I have given full details of the requirements of Ancestral Worship among the Hindoos. See pp. 187-190, also 574, 575. And in ‘Wanderings in China’ I have entered minutely into the still more extraordinary ramifications of the same worship in that vast Empire.

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Moreover, when a Christian is taken ill, his sufferings are often greatly aggravated by the persistent determination of his relatives to perform noisy devil-ceremonies on his behalf, and also by the fear lest, after his death, they should forcibly burn his body with heathen rites. If some other members of the family are Christians, they can generally succeed in preventing this dishonour to the dead, but very painful scenes sometimes offend this solemn presence, as in the case of a young schoolmistress, whose death-bed was a striking instance of calm Christian peace, but no sooner had her spirit passed away, than her heathen relatives commenced a terrible uproar in their determination to enforce heathen rites. Her father and brothers, however, being also Christians, stood firm; whereupon, all their kinsfolk forsook them, refusing to have anything further to do with them.

Very striking is the manner in which these poor caste-ridden people occasionally apply some story of our Lord’s tenderness and humility, as contrasted with the harsh arrogance of the Brahmans. Thus a poor coolie chanced to hear the story of Christ’s visit to Zacchæus. Next time he visited the temple and presented his accustomed offering, he felt how different was the action of the proud priest, who bade him lay his money on the ground, and who then poured water over it and washed it with his foot before he would take it up. So he went back to the house where he had heard those good words, and stood outside listening during the morning prayers, and one who saw him, bade him enter, and taught him, and soon that man became a working Christian. Like St. Andrew, he ‘first found his own brother, and brought him to Jesus;’ then he persuaded his wife, and so the leaven of good has spread.

But very often, when a man resolves to take this great step, he is rejected by all his relations; his own wife and sons utterly despise him. Yet again and again, such a one has persevered in prayer for their conversion, and although years may elapse ere one will join him, sooner or later the change is wrought, and the patient convert has the gladness of bringing his family to crave Christian baptism. Amongst those who have thus been added to the Church was one of the most notorious devil-dancers of Pallai, whose delight it was to ridicule the preaching of the Gospel. Nevertheless, that he might be the better able to cavil, he bought a Bible and began reading it, with the oft-told result. Light entered into his heart so fully, that not all the prayers and tears of his kinsfolk could shake his new-born faith; and so eager did he now become to confess Christ in presence of all men, that those who witnessed his baptism begged that he might be named Paul Vayrakiam (Paul the Zealous). With him was baptized another young man, whose conversion was due to the efforts of another recent convert from the devil-dancers.

For in these fever-stricken districts, and on those burning sandy plains, the old, old story comes home to these poor neglected ones with just the same love and power that it has done to myriads in all corners of the earth wheresoever this Gospel has been preached. In the life of many of the converts there is abundant proof of their having fully realised their Saviour’s love, and of their living in the blessed consciousness of His abiding presence; and there is just the same earnest longing to lead others to a personal knowledge of the only source of light and life, with apparently less of that shyness—perhaps selfish shyness—which leads our more reserved Western natures to shrink from speech on the subjects which we recognise as most vital to ourselves, and yet often guard as jealously as though our neighbour had no concern therein.

Grand enduring work has been done by many such loving disciples—work known only to their Master—in the gradual upbuilding of His Church.

I must, however, turn to a less pleasant topic, to show how not only the good leaven spreads, but also the evil; for, sad to say, here, as in Japan and other countries, the bitter leaven of infidel teaching is working with pernicious effect, and the writings of the leading ‘free-thinkers’ and atheists poison the minds of many a would-be-wise young student. So the preachers of the Gospel have not merely to contend with the systems of a debased Buddhism or Brahmanism but with all the oft-repeated, oft-refuted difficulties and objections, which are deemed so doubly wise because they are imported from Europe.

For instance, one of the chief Hindoo festivals in this district is annually held at an ancient temple near Nellore, in honour of Kandaswami, the youngest son of the god Siva. The festival continues for twenty-five days, and on the tenth day the idol is brought forth and placed on a splendid car, and so drawn triumphantly in sunwise circuit round the temple. The most fanatical observances of olden days are now prohibited, and here, as at the great Juggernath Temple of India, devotees may no longer throw themselves beneath the wheels of the car, but have to satisfy their zeal by rolling in the dust in its wake. This is done by hundreds of the vast multitude who annually assemble from all parts of the country in very earnest pilgrimage.

Such a gathering affords an opportunity of sowing good words broadcast, which is not neglected by the Christian teachers who mingle freely in the crowd, and do what they can by preaching and the sale and distribution of books. Latterly they have been gladdened by hearing comments on the good which Christianity was acknowledged to have effected in Jaffna, and some were heard to say that doubtless forty or fifty years hence all the population will have become Christian. But though many listened with interest, an organised system of molestation and interruption has now been set on foot by a party of young men, who go about, not to defend the insulted dignity of Kandaswami, but to distribute pamphlets and tracts compiled by themselves from the works of atheistic Europeans.

In like manner, quite the most serious bar to the acceptance of the Gospel by Buddhists is the energetic teaching of European exponents of Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism.

A very important branch of Church missionary work amongst the Hindoo population of Ceylon is that known as the Tamil Coolie Mission, which has for its object the instruction of all the legion of immigrants from Malabar, who come generally for a term of five years or more, chiefly to labour on the plantations, and do all the hard work of the Isle. This Mission was commenced on a small scale about thirty years ago, and has been mainly supported by the coffee-planters, who raise more than 1,000l. a year to maintain catechists and schools—a clear proof of their estimate of this good effort.

Upwards of forty native agents are now thus employed; but so numerous are the estates, that each catechist has to visit from forty to sixty, and so can only go to each about once in three months, which does not allow much chance of gaining individual influence with the utterly ignorant heathen.

The Mission is superintended by three European and two Tamil clergymen, whose lives are spent in one long round of difficult hill-travelling, over an area so vast, that on an average they can only go over the ground once in six months. Their district is about as large as Wales, and much more mountainous; so this Mission may well be described as under-manned, the more so seeing how many plantations lie beyond the reach of any English service, save on these rare occasions.

To supply even this scanty spiritual fare involves an exhausting life of ceaseless locomotion. Some folk in England might think it hard work to be up and out every morning by 5 A.M. to attend the muster of coolies, and preach to them before starting on a four or five hours’ walk, beneath a blazing sun, over steep hills without one scrap of shade. Then the native Christians on the estate, and perhaps some in the nearest village, must be visited, and candidates for baptism or confirmation examined and taught, and the catechist, if there be one, must be cheered by a talk about his work, and on the morrow the same round must be repeated on the next estate. And so each day of the week repeats itself till Sunday, when there is a Tamil service for as many coolies as can be mustered, and English service for the planters, many of whom come a very long way to be present.

Small chapels are indeed scattered at wide intervals over the mountain districts where the plantations chiefly lie, and in these two of the Diocesan clergy minister regularly, and others occasionally, but many estates are so remote that they are only visited at very rare intervals. When we think of the multiplicity of church-going luxuries offered for our selection in this country, we can perhaps realise how very much neglected we should feel—in fact, how easily we might lose the mere habit of Sunday observance—were our religious privileges limited to two or three meetings in a coffee-store or a drawing-room in the course of a year. Certainly it does seem a very unequal division of the Church’s workers which leaves so wide a field with such limited pastoral care.

Even Sunday does not necessarily bring rest from travel; for instance, the native clergyman (Tamil) at Pelmadulla holds an English service at 8 A.M., and then one in Tamil, after which he either travels twelve miles to hold an English service at Ratnapura, or to some other district. But in truth, neither clergy nor people spare themselves in this respect, the distance which some of these people walk to be present at a service being almost incredible; as, for instance, at Rackwane, in the south, to which some of the congregation were in the habit of walking fifteen miles every Sunday, till a Christian conductor undertook to hold service in one of the coffee-stores. (The Principal of Trinity College, Kandy, mentions that one of his late pupils travelled 130 miles in order to be present at the early morning service on New Year’s Day.)

As a matter of course, the work of this Mission is greatly helped or impeded by the attitude of the authorities on each estate. In some cases the planters themselves, or their superintendents, take a hearty interest in its progress, and I have recently heard of one who, being present at the baptism of five of his own coolies, addressed them in their own tongue, in such plain, manly words as they were not likely to forget, especially exhorting them so to live that they might be the means of bringing others also to Jesus. That speaker’s words are so happily illustrated in his own life, that one of his Singhalese neighbours expressed a devout hope that he may eventually become a Buddha!

Happily, within the last few years, a considerable number of the planters have awakened to the duty and privilege of thus exerting a strong personal influence on the men in their employ, while on other estates much is done by earnest Christian Kanganis, i.e., coolie overseers, who supplement the work of the catechist by reading the service on intermediate Sundays, or in some cases by holding prayer-meetings (for many catechists have charge of a very much larger district than any one man can work satisfactorily). In at least one district the habit of family evening-prayer is now general amongst the Christians, though to assemble in the morning is impossible, owing to the early hour when work begins.

On the other hand, where the Kangani is a heathen and antagonistic to the Christians, he can greatly impede the work of the catechist and embitter the lives of the converts. Thus, in one district, where till recently there were four Christian Kanganis, a change in the management of the estates has led to their being all replaced by heathens—a very grievous matter for the little band of converts whose taskmasters they are.

A considerable number of conversions have been entirely due to the influence and persuasion of Christian fellow-coolies. This has notably been the case in Uda Pussellawa, where, about twelve years ago, a Canarese man and his wife were converted. They had for many years been working on Ceylon estates, and probably had a large acquaintance among their fellows. Every evening since their baptism, when the long day’s work is done, they have assembled in their house as many as they could collect for Bible-reading and prayer, and it is mainly due to this effort that a congregation of upwards of a hundred persons now meet for worship every Sunday in a pretty stone church, towards the building of which ‘Isaac’ and his wife contributed the first hundred rupees. The congregation prove their zeal by walking from six to ten miles from other estates, no small effort on this their only day of rest. These are only poor coolies, but somehow, I fancy that in the Great Hereafter many of us who now daily say (I doubt if we as often really pray that oft-said prayer) THY KINGDOM COME, will vainly wish that in all our lives we had done as much to prepare the way for our Lord’s coming as these humble folk have done.

Certainly it is enough to make us all think, to note how often a few words of Scripture or of exhortation have so impressed poor ignorant heathen Tongans, Fijians, or Chinamen, that they have returned to their own villages and endured persecution for years staunchly, never resting till they have persuaded others, and so each has become the nucleus of a church; whereas we, on whom all teaching and Christian privileges have been lavished from our cradles, what have we individually ever done to induce one from without the fold to enter?

I never hear the story of Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian eunuch (whom so many white men would contemptuously have described as ‘only a nigger,’ but to whom alone the prophet was bidden to convey the Divine assurance of safety amid all the horrors of the capture of Jerusalem and the slaughter of all the princes and nobles of Judah[236]), without a thought of that day of surprises, when so many great lords, temporal and spiritual, will have to take the lowest places, and others who are now last and least will find themselves first and greatest in THE KINGDOM.

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Footnote 236:

Jer. xxxviii. 7, 8; and Jer. xxxix. 6, 7, and 16-18.

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In another case recently reported, eighteen persons came forward to ask for baptism, all of whom had been very carefully instructed by another Christian couple. Thirteen of these had walked thirty miles through a continuous downpour of rain to present themselves to the clergyman on his visiting the district. Of course all candidates are subject to most searching examination to prove their sincerity, and the answer of one suggested how truly he had grasped the principle of the new life. ‘Doubtless,’ he said, ‘some may be Christians in name only, but such have only joined Christianity without being united to Christ.’

Of course the difficulty of obtaining a permanent influence over these coolies is greatly enhanced by their migratory habits, which often take them from one district to another, or back to India, before much appreciable good has been done. Nevertheless, some of the workers are convinced that, even as the dawn advances to high noon—imperceptibly—so the Light is radiating silently but surely; and though as yet only about fifteen hundred of the Tamil coolies now on the Isle have received baptism, a considerable number have returned as Christians to their own country, and very many listen with earnest attention, and some say they are convinced of the truth of the Gospel, but dare not face the anger of their relations should they openly embrace Christianity. It would be difficult to find a more remarkable proof of their goodwill than is shown by the generosity with which they sometimes contribute to purely Christian objects, as, for instance, the building of a substantial church at Rackwane, where the congregation is very small and very poor, and about three-fourths of the requisite sum has been given by heathen overseers and coolies!

Among what I may call ‘insensible influences’ for good are some exceedingly popular Christian lyrics, something in the style of ‘The old, old story,’ composed by a Tamil poet. They are Christian stories told in the native style of poetry, and set to native tunes, which find great favour with the people. Many of the converts who cannot read, know these by heart, and their companions, attracted by the melody, learn them also; and so the story is sung, and often well sung, by those who as yet know little of its meaning. Thus one whose heart is in his Master’s work, chanced to be travelling by coach to Kandy, when one of the passengers commenced singing Hindoo songs so cheerily that his companions begged him to continue. One at least of his hearers was considerably astonished when the next song selected was one of the most beautiful of these lyrics, ‘Jesus carrying His Cross,’ a text which furnished the subject for earnest words to an attentive audience of Hindoos and Buddhists. The singer said he had learnt the lyric from hearing it sung by a Roman Catholic convert in a distant part of the country.

When we remember that in the Jaffna peninsula alone the three Missions have 15,000 children in training, all of whom are taught to sing sacred stories, it is evident what a far-reaching agency for good this must prove. The schools have periodical concerts, when all the relatives come to hear and admire, and the children and Bible-women teach the mothers, who like to sing them in their own homes, so that they are gradually replacing the very objectionable mythological songs even in homes which are not yet altogether Christian.

To those who have not noted elsewhere how often a mighty tree grows from a tiny seed, the feeble first-fruits of work in some large centres of heathenism may seem almost contemptible. Thus in the town of Kurunegalla, the Tamil Christian congregation consists of three very poor families; one is that of a fisherman, another of a man who climbs palm-trees to draw ‘toddy,’ while the third householder is a road-coolie, who at his baptism selected the name of Zachariah, his wife naturally assuming that of Elizabeth. The latter tends a flock of sheep— a few sheep we must assume, since at night she folds them all in the largest room of her little hut, she and her husband contriving to stow themselves away in the other room, which measures 5 feet by 6 feet! Truly a tiny flock, both pastoral and spiritual, but as regards the latter, its shepherd is satisfied that it will erelong prove the nucleus of an ever-widening congregation.

I must repeat that I am speaking only of the Tamil Christians of Kurunegalla, the Singhalese and Burgher congregations being of course quite distinct. Of the former, a recently-acquired member is a native headman from an outlying village, converted through the instrumentality of his brother. These two men, being the only Christians in that neighbourhood, have had to face considerable opposition; indeed, before his baptism this young man had given very strong proof of his determination, in resolutely refusing to offer incense in the great temple at Kandy, where he was obliged to be present in his official capacity; his refusal gave great offence to his superiors. To those who can realise the scene within that beautiful temple—the crowd of devout worshippers bearing their offerings, the gorgeously dressed headmen, the throng of yellow-robed priests urging the recreant to compliance with this simple ceremony—only the burning of a little incense—such an incident suggests a picture of wondrous interest.

Indeed, in all Oriental scenes the picturesque element presents itself at every turn in a manner undreamt of by those who insensibly illustrate these outlines from their own Western thoughts. Thus in the case of the tiny Tamil congregation of which I spoke just now, the reader whose mind sees only three very poor English families would conjure up a very different picture from the little group of turbaned brown men and of women whose brilliantly-coloured drapery is worn so very effectively, and whose poverty must be dire indeed if it forbids the display of rings and bangles, always in good taste, however base the metal. Even the sheep lying in the shade on the verandah of that humble hut are quaint lanky animals with long drooping ears, very much more attractive to the artist than those approved of by British farmers.

While the TAMIL COOLIE MISSION seeks to reach the Hindoo immigrants, a corresponding organisation known as the KANDYAN ITINERANCY works over nearly the same area of hill-country in the three central provinces. It appeals especially to the Singhalese village population, supplying (to the best of its ability) Christian schoolmasters and catechists, under the superintendence of two European and two Singhalese clergymen of the Church of England.

But considering over what a vast expanse of mountainous and forest country these four men must travel in order occasionally to minister to their widely-scattered flock, we can well believe that this Mission also suffers from being ‘under-manned.’ Nevertheless, a wide-spread influence for good has been established; in many districts a spirit of interest and inquiry now replaces the dull apathy of sleepy Buddhism, and a multitude of tiny congregations form so many little spots of leaven in the great mass of heathenism.

It is not to be supposed that the paths of the converts are always paths of peace, for even the non-persecuting Buddhists contrive to make life very unpleasant to relations who venture to differ from them; young converts especially are occasionally removed from school and beaten to induce them to kneel once more at Buddhist altars, and the dread of being so treated prevents many from expressing their convictions. For instance, two youths, who ventured to say they wished to become Christians, were at once compelled by their parents to assume the yellow robe and prepare for the Buddhist priesthood.

The contemplative life, however, sometimes results in a more absolute conversion, as in the case of a lad who had for four years attended the Mission-school at Baddigama, when he was inveigled away by the priest of a neighbouring village, who painted in glowing colours the easy life and abundant food of the priesthood, and the honour and homage he would receive from the people would he but take upon him the vows of Buddha. The influence of the parents was secured by the promise of an annual gift of twelve bags of rice from the temple. So the lad yielded, and was duly shaven and invested with the sacred yellow robes, and for three years he continued in the service of the temple with an ever-reproachful conscience.

At length his spiritual conflict was evident to all his companions, and every means, fair and foul, was tried to hold him fast. Some tried bribes, and one man threatened to stab him if he would not say that Buddha and the priests were the most high refuge. But the lad gained courage, and throwing off the yellow robes, he returned to his first teachers, and after due probation was baptized and confirmed, and is now a communicant. His parents were present at his baptism, and there seemed every reason to hope that they would follow his example.

In various parts of the Isle men who were once priests of Buddha have likewise found the True Light, and are now working steadfastly under Christ’s banner.

At the present moment, when a leaning to Buddhism and its twin-brother Agnosticism has become a sort of fashion in England, it is interesting to note the reasons for renouncing the former which are given by men born and bred in that faith. One says he does so ‘because Buddha nowhere says a word about the Eternal God; all things in heaven and earth declare His wisdom and power, but as concerns loving, obeying, and believing in Him, Buddha is dumb. Hence communion with God in prayer, which is the very life of the soul, is absolutely ignored, since, according to this teaching, there is no one to whom prayer can be offered—no one to hear and no one to answer.’

An old man about seventy-five years of age said that all through his long life he has been seeking rest. He wrote out sacred books, he gave large alms, and performed long pilgrimages to Adam’s Peak and Anuradhapura and other holy shrines, hoping thus to heap up merit; but it was all to no purpose till at last Christ came to him (for truly, he says, it was not that he had sought Christ), and in Him he found the rest he craved. The old man was one of a congregation of upwards of seventy communicants in a village where a few years ago there was not one Christian.

Now note the reply of a young convert, who, when urged by his father to return to his ancestral faith, replied, ‘I cannot go back to Buddhism. I must believe that there is a Creator of the world. I need forgiveness of sin, and there is no Saviour, no forgiveness in Buddhism. There is no one who has the power to forgive, therefore, everyone must of necessity endure all the consequences of his sins. I want to be happy after death, and there is no hope in Buddhism—but in Christianity I find all these.’ The latter is the son of a rigidly Buddhist family, and had been brought from another province by the priest at Kurunegalla on purpose to teach a school which he had opened in opposition to that of the Mission. This young man’s uncle was sent for to reason with him, but instead of reclaiming the wanderer, he confessed the validity of all his arguments, and presented himself as a candidate for baptism.

It is also instructive to note that the aforesaid priest, in urging his neighbours to withstand the teaching of ‘those lying fools the Christians,’ instead of himself preaching pure Buddhism, recommends the villagers to join the Society of Theosophists. There is, unfortunately, no doubt that Buddhism has received a real impetus from the example of certain foolish Europeans, who (most assuredly lacking any personal knowledge of ‘THE MASTER’ whom they so dishonour) have thrown in their lot with the teachers of so-called Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism— systems which those who understand them best, classify as ‘Bedlamite balderdash,’ ‘blatant humbug,’ and ‘impudent imposture.’

I would shrink from quoting such expressions regarding any phase of true Theosophy or ‘Divine knowledge,’ but the leaders of this society in Ceylon (well aware that there could be no fellowship between seekers after knowledge of God and the atheistic system of Buddhism, which does not acknowledge any God) were wise in their generation, and adopted as their title the Paramawignanartha, or Supreme Knowledge Society. Consequently it embraces whatever may be the individual ideal of highest good, whether it be how best to enjoy this world, and how to get on in it and get wealth, or how best to attain to Nirvana and the extinction of all desire.[237]

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Footnote 237:

Taking Theosophy even at its best, as now preached in Europe, an unbiassed student of its teaching writes: ‘There is no note which vibrates more constantly in the soul of every true man than the prayer, “Lord, be merciful to me a sinner!”... To that heartfelt cry I do not find any answer in Theosophy. I find, on the contrary, an almost exultant assertion that GOD is not a Being with a Father’s heart, that for sin there is no expiation, and for the sinner no forgiveness.’

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I think the European disciples of these schools would be rather startled were they to realise the practical working of the systems for which they are content to abjure Christianity. For instance, in the neighbourhood of the Mission-station at Cotta, Colonel Olcott succeeded in stirring up the Buddhist priests to such hostility, that for a while the attendance at the Christian schools was sensibly diminished. In the village of Udumulla the priests under this influence opened a rival school, and pronounced a very singular form of excommunication against all who should persist in sending their children to the Mission-schools. Such offenders were to be fined a rupee and a half, and were further admonished that ‘the dhobie shall not wash their clothes, the native doctors shall not attend any of them in sickness, the devil-dancers shall not perform demon ceremonies for them (!), and the astrologers shall not consult the planets for them on the birth of their children, or concerning marriages and other important events!’

We need scarcely wonder that those who have escaped from this debased system are proof against all arguments of the Theosophists. Colonel Olcott did his utmost to persuade a Buddhist priest who had become a Christian to resume the yellow robe. When he had exhausted his arguments, the ex-priest replied, with more force than polish, ‘I am not a dog that I should return to my vomit. Pray spare your pity. If you can believe that there is no right, no wrong, no soul, no conscience, no responsibility, no God, no judgment, you need for yourself all the pity you possess and more.’

Yet it is to this system that so great an impetus has been given even in Europe and America by the agency of so beautiful a writer as Sir Edwin Arnold, who, in his passionate admiration for the good and noble, depicts things not as they really are, but as he would have them to be; for truly what he calls ‘The Light of Asia’ has most practically proved to be only bewildering darkness.

Surely such an ovation as was accorded to him by the Buddhists when he visited Ceylon in 1886 was doubtful honour for a Christian. At one Buddhist college near Colombo well-nigh three thousand Buddhists assembled to testify their gratitude to the poet who has painted their leader in colours all borrowed from the life and teaching of Him Who is the true LIGHT OF THE WORLD. The honoured guest was placed on a raised platform beneath an honorific canopy, while Buddhist ecclesiastics robed in yellow satin chanted chorals, litanies, and anthems in Pali and Singhalese, Sir Edwin replying in Sanskrit.

One of those best acquainted with practical Buddhism in Ceylon describes it as ‘the most cunningly-devised system of atheism and negation, of idol-worship, tree and serpent worship, demon-worship, and pessimism which has ever held the human mind in bondage’—a system exactly answering to the awful Scriptural summary, ‘Having no hope, and without God in the world.’

Archdeacon Farrar says, ‘Buddhism, as it appears, not in “The Light of Asia,” but in the original “Life of Gautama,” is but a philosophy of despair, which knows no immortality, no conscience, and no God. Humanity has groped in blindness after its Creator; in Christ alone has it learned the love of His Fatherhood and the riches of His salvation.’

Here are the two creeds. The Buddhist Gospel of Misery teaches that all is vanity and all is suffering, and that complete cessation of craving for existence is the only cessation of suffering, and, therefore, the one thing to strive after.

He ‘who is able to keep us from falling’ says, ‘Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ And His Apostle says, ‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.’ And, as the goal for which we strive, he says, ‘AND SO SHALL YE EVER BE WITH THE LORD.’

Christ bestows now on all who truly give themselves to Him the gift of a spiritual life, one with His own, which shall exist in conscious, perfect union with Him throughout eternity.[238]

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Jesus says, ‘He that hath the SON HATH LIFE. He that hath not the SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE. I am come that they might have Life, and that they might have it abundantly. Where I am there shall also My servant be.’

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Can anything more pitiful be conceived than that human beings born within the pale of the Christian Church can deliberately sacrifice the privilege of individual personal communion with the ever-present Almighty Friend who cares for each one of us, in exchange for an utterly irresponsive negation—a theory of perfection only to be attained through self-conquest, at which poor weak human beings are advised to aim through ages of lonely life-long struggles extending over many transmigrations, without one prayerful look to the Divine Helper who alone can keep our wayward wills from wandering after all manner of evil? And all this in order to gain the cessation of their individual life.

Buddha made no offer of the Divine Gift of Life, for it was not his to bestow.[239] Of Christ it is true now as of old, that ‘as many as receive Him, to them gives He power to become the sons of God, who shall dwell with Him for ever and be like Him. Buddha offers no power nor help of any sort. He merely gives rules how so absolutely to conquer every natural instinct, that, after untold ages of weary agonising, men may attain to a cessation of their very undesirable individual existence, in other words, to Nirvana, i.e., the condition of a flame after it has been blown out. The highest ideal of bliss is the attainment of perfection in the colourless, loveless condition of a dewdrop falling into the ocean, thenceforth to exist only as merged in the Infinite. It is not a very inviting goal for which to agonise, except as a means of escape from the prolonged miseries of innumerable transmigrations. Surely not worth even a passing thought from any one who has received Christ’s gracious offer of immortality—His own gift of Eternal Life in Himself.

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Footnote 239:

When Prince Gautama was born the world had still six centuries to wait ere man might again have access to the Tree of Life (the tree of which, according to the old allegory, Eve failed to eat, and the approach to which was thenceforth guarded, lest, having sinned, she should nevertheless eat of its fruit and live for ever in estrangement from God); and so the Redeemer reveals Himself not only as the Life, but as the Life-Giver. ‘To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for ... immortality, He giveth Eternal Life.’ ‘To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.‘ ‘THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, that they may know Thee, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.’

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I think if good Prince Gautama had been born 600 years later, and within hearing of the truth as revealed in Jesus Christ, he would assuredly have been the most earnest and devoted of His apostles, and he would now be spared the grief of seeing dim-eyed men turn from the fulness of the True Light to grope after the pale glimmer which, when he kindled it in the black night of unmitigated idolatry, was so eagerly blessed, even as the weary watcher prizes the feeble rushlight if he has nothing better; but candle and lamp alike pale before the glow of the Eastern dawn.

To us Christians the whole of life is glorified and gladdened by the consciousness of living union with our ever-present loving Lord, and the certainty (too often proved in our own experience to leave any room for doubt) of His sympathy and care for all that concerns us. But for the Buddhist there is no such companionship, only lonely striving after a perfection unattainable to the weakness of unhelped humanity.

He seeks absolute perfection here. The Christian knows his life here to be but the embryo of what it shall be; of the next stage he knows no more than the dull grub, working out its little round of existence, dreams in what perfection of life and radiancy of colour it will emerge from its chrysalis coffin. Our life here is that of the chick cradled within the egg-shell—a life hid (but hid with Christ in God), and even now being formed and developed, soon to burst the shell and pass through whatever stages may yet be needed to bring us to perfection.

‘It doth not yet appear what we shall be,’ any more than a vast collection of birds’ eggs of all nations can suggest the myriad forms of beauty which they represent—the soaring eagles, swift sea-birds, jewelled humming-birds flashing in the sunlight, too quick for sight to follow, bright birds of paradise, all varied types of radiant plumage and musical song, and all developed from a lot of empty egg-shells. So from the soul-cases in which we now dwell shall go forth the living US to be perfected, each after his kind, and dwell for ever in His presence, which is fulness of joy.

Of course one radical difference between the striving after perfection enjoined on the Christian and on Buddhists, Parsees, Brahmans and Mahommedans lies in the motive for good works. The Christian knows he is bound to do his very utmost as a thank-offering for the free gift bestowed on him, whereas, in all other creeds, the one idea is that of purchasing salvation by works. Multiply acts of self-denial, external rites, pilgrimages, prayers (though Buddhism ignores God), and by these means weave a robe of self-righteousness—the dearest of all to human pride.

In the case of Buddhism, repeat the name of Buddha as a perpetual charm. You can never say it often enough; so go on and on all your life. If you could be sure that you had thus, or by any other means, acquired sufficient merit, there would be no occasion to pay the monks for reciting endless acts of devotion (which cannot be prayers) on your behalf, to get your soul out of the many purgatories in which devils will delight in tormenting it. Oh! the hopelessness of such a creed, with its weary prospect of successive transmigrations, each carrying forward the account of good or ill from the previous state of existence.

Kandy, as might be expected in the city of the sacred Tooth, has as yet proved a rocky soil, unfavourable to the growth of Christian seed; and though the Episcopal Church, the Wesleyans, and the Baptists are all at work, it has been well said that the atmosphere is as full of heathenism as it is of heat. Seeing the very important bearing on this subject of female education, it is somewhat remarkable that, with the exception of the Wesleyan industrial schools for poor girls, no female boarding-school should have been established in the mountain capital. Mission-agents send their daughters from here to Cotta, but for those of influential Kandyan gentlemen no such education is available, though it has been proved that wherever such schools are opened, parents willingly send their daughters, though well aware that a considerable number invariably embrace Christianity. This subject is one of increasing importance, not merely on account of the influence which might thus be acquired in many influential homes, but as the surest hope of providing suitable wives for such converts as may be won from among the high-caste Kandyan boys who are now being trained at Trinity College, Kandy.

Such is the anxiety for a good English education, that the parents of these lads and young men are eager to secure it, notwithstanding a well-grounded impression that it will probably result in the renunciation of Buddhism. The college is under the direction of two English clergymen and a staff of ten masters. The two hundred day-scholars and the forty boarders are of all denominations, but the majority are professedly Christian, as are also all the masters; and when we hear of these scholars holding prayer-meetings by themselves, and that in one year eight of the senior students dedicated themselves to active Christian work, it is evident that the tone of the college must be encouraging to any Buddhist lad who is inclined to think seriously on the subject.

I have already spoken[240] of the great school at Cotta, commenced by the Church Missionary Society in A.D. 1822, with its boarding-school for girls and training-institution for native clergy.

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In addition to these varied duties, the Principal of Cotta, the Rev. R. T. Dowbiggin, has also the general superintendence of upwards of fifty village-schools, twenty-seven for girls and twenty-five for boys. These are scattered over an area of five hundred square miles, and have an average daily attendance of 1,100 girls and 1,600 boys, most of whom are Buddhists. This extension of girls’ schools is deemed a most satisfactory feature, full of promise for the future, were it only for the breaking down of caste prejudice. As in the schools for Hindoo girls in the Northern Provinces, so here Singhalese girls of four distinct castes now sit on the same benches and learn the same lessons. This result has been achieved with far greater facility in the boys’ schools than in the girls’. But the fact that girls should be allowed to live in the houses of Christians, and eat food cooked by them, proves that caste in Ceylon is a less grievous yoke than it is in Northern India.

This caste question, however, does prove a very serious difficulty, not only among the Tamil people, who, of course, keep up the regular Hindoo caste distinctions, but also among the Singhalese. One of their own pastors, the Rev. L. Liesching, writes, that although born and bred in Ceylon, he could not have believed how strong its influence really is. He says that even the Duriya (low-caste) Christians, on whose behalf he has to combat the prejudice of their higher-caste neighbours, show just as much unwillingness to associate with those who are of inferior caste to themselves. And as regards the highest castes, this is undoubtedly the greatest obstacle to their conversion. This is the more remarkable as caste is not a sacred institution among the Singhalese, for Buddhism does not recognise any such distinction of rank, and the Buddhist priests, to whom all yield reverence, are admitted from every caste. Here the distinction is simply social; nevertheless the line of demarcation is so marked, that no amount of wealth can overcome it, or induce the native aristocracy to admit a man from a lower caste to social intercourse, far less to intermarriage.

Thus, of all the races who people Ceylon, the Moormen alone are apparently free from caste trammels, at least I suppose they are as free as average Christians, which, after all, is not saying much, especially in free America, where the general interpretation of social equality seems to lie in being the equal of all superiors and the immeasurable superior of all of lower degree.

The Church Missionary Society did not commence work in Colombo till 1850. Three years later a large church was erected on the Galle Face Esplanade, in which English, Singhalese, and Tamil services have been constantly held for the three races. Here the Society also has district schools for boys and girls, and a boarding-school for Tamil Christian girls. It also carries on all manner of evangelistic work among Hindoos, Mahommedans, Buddhists, and Portuguese.

The work amongst the latter is most discouraging, the majority being so steeped in hopeless poverty that their life seems to have lost all spring; and as Ceylon has no poor laws, all such are dependent for relief on a voluntary association called the Friend-in-Need Society, which, at best, can merely mitigate the sufferings of the most needy. Though of Portuguese descent, many of these poor Burghers, living in the lanes and alleys of Slave Island, are absolutely heathen; so the Wesleyans have latterly commenced holding services in Portuguese for their benefit, while the Church of England endeavours to reach some by means of a ragged-school and special services in Singhalese, which the majority can understand better than English. Their own language is a very debased Portuguese. Of course the well-to-do Dutch Burghers form a large and very important class of the community. As may be guessed by a glance round any of the churches one may chance to enter, they fill all sorts of responsible positions, but the Portuguese seem never to have got over the crushing oppression to which their ancestors were subjected by the Dutch, and to this day few rise high in the social scale.

In the Southern Province, where the population is principally Singhalese, and consequently Buddhist, the Church of England Mission is carried on chiefly by the S.P.G. and Diocesan clergy, the only station of the Church Missionary Society being that at Baddigama, which was commenced about A.D. 1820. Here one European and two native clergymen superintend the work of fifty male and female lay teachers. Baddigama is a large district, extending as far north as Bentota, and including a population of 100,000 souls, of whom only 526 are as yet professedly Christian. Twenty-six church-schools, with an average attendance of about sixty-seven children, are, however, so many centres of good influence, though there are villages where the schoolmaster himself is as yet literally the only Christian. Yet even in these the people seem quite willing to listen, and many profess to have lost all belief in Buddhism.

These villages are generally in the poorest districts, which have been almost abandoned by the Buddhist priests, and the temples left to fall into decay. This points to the fact that in the low country there are few rich temple endowments in land, such as were bestowed on the priesthood by the Kandyan kings, and which make the priests of the Central Province altogether independent of the people. That the people themselves desire education is certain, and at one of these low-country villages the Bana Maduwa (Buddhist preaching-place) was offered to the Mission by the village headmen, to be converted into a Christian school; and when this was declined because it adjoined the pansala, i.e., temple-school, they at once erected a new building for the purpose.

It is, however, to be feared that the present ‘Buddhist revival,’ so diligently fostered by Europeans, will awaken much priestly activity in regard to long-neglected schools. Thus, in September 1890, a Buddhist school was opened at Welligama, the temple south of Galle, which was endowed by ‘the Leper King,’ apparently for no other purpose than to draw away the children from the Wesleyan and S.P.G. schools there. Sixty were allured from the former, and twenty from the latter, and a few days later a dastardly attempt was made to burn down the Wesleyan schools.

That a period of renewed struggle and difficulty may be at hand seems only too probable. Yet, on the whole, there is good ground for encouragement. In summarising the present position of Ceylon in regard to Christianity, it must be borne in mind that, apart from actual conversions, a very much wider work has been accomplished in the softening of prejudices, the general loosening of the far-reaching roots both of Buddhism and Brahmanism, and especially in awakening a real interest in religious questions in place of the former utter apathy. This last change is, doubtless, due to the amount of careful Scriptural training which has for so many years been imparted to many thousand children in the schools of all the Protestant Missions. These at present number over forty thousand.

Consequently, in any district where Mission-schools have been at work for any length of time, a Christian preacher may be sure that many of his hearers have some previous understanding of the subject, which in itself is an immense help. Moreover, Christian teachers are more and more supplanting the heathen teachers in all the schools, so that all influence is in the right direction.

It is quite evident that the way is now open for real progress, if only the Mission-field were provided with a sufficient working staff. Whether these can be supplied must depend in a great measure on the pecuniary support placed at the disposal of the various working societies. Of Ceylon, as of so many other lands, it must be said, ‘The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.’

From the present position of Buddhism, it is evident that every month of delay in occupying any fresh Mission-field in Ceylon will increase the difficulties and diminish the prospect of success; therefore, it is surely the plain duty of English Christians to rouse themselves to a resolute effort on behalf of the beautiful Isle where such a multitude of England’s sons are striving to earn their living.

Now here, it seems to me, is one of the most practical bits of direct work that could well be found. There lies the beautiful land, with, IN ONE SINGLE DISTRICT, TENS OF THOUSANDS of neglected villagers, weary of their own dark ignorance, and ready to be taught by whoever will first enter the field. Earnest workers who have gladly devoted their lives and consecrated every energy to ploughing and sowing in neighbouring districts, look longingly on this great field which now lies white to the harvest, and from their lonely stations they send home to rich Christian England such a cry for help in this great need as must surely arouse the most indifferent to a true understanding of their privilege in being allowed to help such a work from those funds which we know we each hold in trust, to be accounted for hereafter, as we so often need to remind ourselves, as we say ‘Both riches and honour come from THEE, and of THINE own do we give THEE.’

Our MASTER has deputed us to offer to all men throughout the whole world His priceless gift of SPIRITUAL LIFE; and yet there are millions to whom His message of love has never been delivered, because they to whom He has entrusted His talents of gold and silver are either squandering them on themselves, or hoarding them for other purposes than that of sending messengers to carry this great Light to the nations who still dwell in the darkness of heathenism.

The funds at the disposal of the various societies being quite insufficient to supply the means of livelihood for even the native catechists, schoolmasters, and Bible-women so sorely needed for the work, it is evident that Europeans possessed of sufficient private means to support themselves would be especially welcome. Surely there must be some—and many are needed—who will recognise in this glorious work for eternity a better use for God-given talents than that of shaping the pleasantest career in England.

Why should not two friends who realise the true purpose of their lives agree that whereas their companions are starting in couples in search of big game in far countries, they too will start together as fishers of men, to cast the Gospel-net in waters teeming with life? Assuredly in no other career will they find so true a spring of joy and gladness for their own lives as in this ceaseless effort to draw all around them to the knowledge and love of their Saviour.

And of all Mission-fields, few offer greater attractions than this beautiful Isle, with its mountains and forests, its bold crags and picturesque rivers, its gorges and waterfalls, its lower hills and wide verdant plains. Furthermore, as compared with such vast Mission-fields as China or Africa, this has the charm of a simple language, a people gracious and kindly to Europeans, the protection of the Union Jack, and the possibility of at any time securing a day with some fellow-countryman who will welcome the sound of his own mother-tongue.

Here then are the inducements:—A healthy open-air life in a lovely country, ploughing and sowing fields which assuredly cannot prove barren, inasmuch as the Lord of the harvest is Himself with His servants to direct their work; and when the angel-reapers have garnered their ripened grain, the patient sower will realise such everlasting gladness as all the fleeting honours of earth fail to secure.

INDEX

Aboriginal worship, 408, 410

Actors, Tamil, 261

Adahana Maluwa, a sanctuary, 216

Adam’s Peak, 523

Adult baptisms, 365

Aetagalla, 497

Agnew, Miss Eliza, 559

Agnosticism, 588

Alexander the Great, 538

Alexandrite, 319

Allegalla Peak, life on, 500; footprint on, ib.; rain-storm on, 501

Alu-Vihara rock-temple, 239

Ambetteyos or barbers, outcasts, 380

Ambulam, 313

American Mission, 557

Amherstia nobilis, 38

Ancestral worship great hindrance to conversion, 587

Ant-eater and ant-lion, 337

Ants, red and black, 44, 82

— white, 43-45, 337; eat dead timber, 326; their foes, 337; their ravages on tea-plants, 513

Anuradhapura, its tanks, 252, 257, 303; origin of name, 264; its ruins, 267; buried city, 278; history of, 283-285; bo-tree at, 288-293

Arichandra, 261

Ark, sacred, 286, 314

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 598

Arrack, 418, 434, 470; trade, 437-439; farms, 437, (Skinner on), 505

Arrows, of gods, 216; of Saman, 314; of Maha-Sen, 398

Artist’s difficulties, 186

Artocarpus incisa and integrifolia, 119

Ashes, of cow-dung, 343; of sandal wood, use sanctioned by Rome, ib.

Astrologers, 197, 199, 598

Aukana Vihare, 266

Australian gums, 506, 514

Avissawella, 311

Axis, or spotted deer, 171, 346, 459

Badal-Wanassa, 182

Baddegama, 430

Badulla, 330, 331; its church, 335

Baker, Sir Samuel, his farm on the Moon Plains, 137; on honey as an industry, 152; on climbing elephants, 154; on sambur hunting, 171; and the devil-bird, 388

Balalu-wewa, 250, 258

Bamboo, gregarious flowering, 152; gigantic, 190

Bana Samanala, 311

Banana plant, 32

Bandarawella, 330

Bandicoot, 513

Banyan-tree, 86; at Negombo, 104; on the Nerbudda, 105; near Kalutara, 472; at Captain’s Gardens, 475

Baptisms, adult, 365

Barber, Tamil, 27

Barnes, Sir Edward, 57

Barringtonia, 472

Bassawa-kulam tank, 252, 258; oldest, 303

Bats, nitre, 239, 303

Batticaloa, 362, 426; derivation of, 363; the harbour-bar, 428

Batticotta College for Tamils, 565-570

Bears, 357, 459

Bêche de mer, 95, 397

Bees, 151

Belligama, sand village, 443

Bentota, 466; oysters, 468

Betel-chewing, 31, 32, 95

Bhuwaneka Bahu IV., King, 499

Bible-women, 562

Bintenne, 372

Birds’ nests, edible, 95, 397

Bishops of Colombo and Ceylon, 29, 37, 550

Blue-bells, 136

Blue Ribbon Army, 570

Boar, wild, 359, 360, 459

Boatmen, picturesque, 14, 87

Bolgoda Lake, 475

Botanical gardens, Hak-galla, 153; Peradeniya, 187-192; Henaratgoda, 192; Anuradhapura, ib.; Badulla, 192, 336

Bo-tree, sacred, 105, 288-293; prophecies concerning, 290; cremation of branch, 291; of leaves, 292

Bow and arrows of gods, 216, 314

Branding cattle, 26

Brazen temple, 279, 280

Bread-fruit tree, 119

Bridge of boats, 57

Brownrigg, Sir Robert, 65

Buddha, his birthday, 69; as a roast hare, 211 n.; twenty-five Buddhas in Ceylon, 290 n., 547; relics of Buddha, 273, 306; dreary negations of, 304; or Christ? 598-601

Buddhism, incorporates Hindooism, 58, 196, 211; is Atheism, 60, 576; and State patronage, 62, 65, 69; and serpent worship, 92; and Roman Catholicism, 341-343; reasons given for abjuring, 596-598; esoteric, 597

Buddhist, rival sects, 58; robe, how worn, 59, 266; temporalities, 63; cosmology, 67; fighting priest, 72; reverence for animal life, 157 n.; heavens, 296; stone railing, 297

Buffaloes, 109, 351, 353, 357, 359, 360, 402, 459

Bulan-kulum, 258

Bungalow, 41; temporary, 184, 334, 380, 402; beside a lake, 476; on Allegalla Peak, 500

Buona Vista Orphanage, 430

Burning forest, 338, 339, 343, 344, 522

Buttercups, 136

Butterflies, 147, 381; Samanaliya, 531

Cable-Rattans, 402

Cacao or chocolate-tree, 514

Cacti, 90, 93, 241, 345

Calico, white (royal cloth), 184, 209, 215, 314, 365, 380

Calpentyn, 93

Camphor, oil of, 46

Canals, 79; ancient, 258, 259

Candle-nut tree, 113, 114

Canoes, 13, 87

Cape Barberyn, westernmost land, 466

Car festival, 314, 326

Cashew bark, 300

Cashew nuts, 96

Cassia, 49

— bark, 300

Cassia fistula, 299

Caste, 366; persecutions, 366-369; prejudices, 376; Singhalese, 377; fisher subdivisions, 473; Singhalese, its strength, 603

— and outcast, 377-379

Cat’s-eye, 319

Cattle, humped, 27

— estate, 370, 371

Centipede, 83

Ceylon Rifles disbanded, 478

Chandivelle, 369

Chanks, temple trumpet, 183, 184

Chapman, Dr., first Anglican Bishop of Colombo, 29

Charms, 196-198, 442

Chekku oil-mill, 435

Chena-farming, 344

Chetahs, 167, 168, 349-356, 459

Chilaw, 96, 98

China, early trade with Ceylon, 396; Ceylon tributary to, 397; modern trade with, ib.

Cholera, 465, 518

Christianity and other creeds contrasted, 601

Chrysoberyl, 321

Chunam, 41, 277

Cinchona plantations, 515, 516

Cinnamon, gardens of, 37, 44, 45, 50; laurel and oil, 45-47; sensitive nature of its perfume, 47; peelers, 48; in jungles near Negombo, 107

— doves, 46

— stone, 320

Civil servants, frequent removal of, 441 n.

Clearing the forest, 338, 339, 343, 544, 522

Climbing plants, 345, 400

Close season for game, 346, 458

Clothes, smart, 146

Cobra, reverenced, 92; five- or seven-headed, 92, 292, 295, 306; tame, 93, 292; and tic polonga, 293; bite remedies, 301

Cock, red, sacrifice, 199

Cocoa plantation, life on a, 359, 369. See Palm, Cocoa

Coffee, fields, 327, 340; stores as churches, &c., 340; thieves, 493; disease, 507; history of, 507-510

Coffin, stone, 296

College, St. Thomas’s, 28, 29; Royal, at Colombo, 30; Vidyodaya, 66

Colombo, its Cathedrals (Anglican), 29; (Roman Catholic), 71; its harbour, 7, 8; ironworks, 9; cotton-spinning, ib.; churches, 30; fort, 34; siege of, 34, 35; lake, 38, 39; its esplanade (‘Galle Face’), 39

Convolvulus, marine, 80, 90, 100, 421, 471

Coolies, 518

Coral-tree, 120

Cotta mission-station, 108, 601

Cottiar Bay, 412

Cow-catcher, 110

Cow-dung, plaster, 31, 337, 370; ashes, 343; boiling, 474

Crabs, 100, 421

Cremation of a Buddhist priest, 72, 73

Crime, regarded with indifference, 477, 480; causes of, 481

Criminals, few women, 481

Crocodiles, 256, 303, 358, 403, 456; longevity of, 403; skin, 404

Crops, two, annually, 110, 262

Crow Island, 443

Cruelty to animals, 494, 495

Curry, 31

Customs, Singhalese and Tamil, 85

Dagoba, various kinds of, 210, 268; Ruanweli, 268, 270, 277, 287; Miriswetiya, 269, 276; Abhayagiria, 270, 273, 276; Thuparama, 271, 273; Lankarama, 273, 276; Jetawanarama, 273, 276; of two classes, 274; circle on a square, 275; Hanguranketa, contents of, 276; Seta-Chaitiya or Lajjikavihara, 276; derivation of the word ‘dagoba,’ 276 n.; Kiri Wihara, 277; at Buddha-Gaya rebuilt, 289 n.; Etwehera, 306; Maha Seya, 306; Ambustele, 307; Rankot or Ruan-welle-saye, 276, 393; Kiri, at Pollonarua, 393

Dambulla rock-temples, 240; scene of last insurrection, 249

Datura blossom, 128, 133

Datura fastuosa, 301

Dawson, Captain, monument to, 122

Days of the week, 219

De and Don, Portuguese prefixes, 490

Deaths, falling from trees, 418, 419; accidental, 492

Decoration, church, 142

Delada-Maligawa, at Kandy, 174, 201, 206, 221; at Anuradhapura, 271; at Pollonarua, 392

Delada-wanso, 220

Demon-worship, 197, 199, 371, 585, 586

Detractors of missionaries, 578

Devil-bird, 388

Devil-dancers, 183, 196, 199, 314, 585

Devils, how to deceive, 198

Devotion, legendary acts of, 201

Dewenipiatissa, King, 252, 273, 289, 303, 305

Dhatu-Sena and Mahanamo, 250, 260

Dhobie, village laundryman, 380; prepares bungalows for travellers, ib.

Dimbula district, 135

Dondra- or Dewa-nuwara, 285, 442, 446-448

Douglas, Sir John, 255

Doves, 467, 468

Dragonflies, 327

Drama, 261, 422, 423

Duel, historic, 242, 243

Dufferin, Lady, her medical school for women, 562

Dutch invasion, 550

— missions, 430

Dutugemunu, 243, 265, 268, 269

Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, 592

Ebony, its durability, 43; peculiar characteristics of, 57, 419; raft of, 57

Eiswara, ancient worship of, 295

Elala, Prince of Mysore, 243, 265

Elephant Plains, 135

Elephant, Tom Skinner’s first, 123; the war elephant, Kadol, 265; shooting, 350, 357, 359; a midnight adventure with an, 460, 461; charmer, professional, 462

Elephants as surveyors, 125; as climbers, 153; natural history, 155-167; cause of tender feet, 163; export of, 166; in full dress, 212; bridge-building, 357; close season and consequent increase, 458, 459

Elk (sambur deer), 169, 170, 346, 356, 459

Ella Pass, 334

Elu or high Singhalese, 204

Encroachments of the sea, 448-451

Eribuddu, 79

Esoteric Buddhism, 597

Eucalyptus, 506

Euphorbia, 462

Evil eye, dread of, 376

— spirits, how to deceive, 198

Eye flies, 347, 381

Fa Hian, Chinese traveller, 271, 288

Faiths, Blended, 196, 556

False accusation, murders to cause, 483

Farrar, Archdeacon, on Buddhism, 599

‘Father,’ American mission, 564

Feet of Buddha, 274. See Holy Foot

Female medical students, 562

Ferguson, A. M., editor ‘Ceylon Observer,’ 52

Ferguson, William, botanist, 52

Ferns, tree, 134, 401; maidenhair, 308; climbing, 311, 471; basket, 401

Ficus religiosa, indica, and elastica, 105, 106, 187, 188, 288

Field-hospitals, 333

Filters, the necessity of, 90, 381; for village use, 382

Fire, sacred, 62

Fire-flies (beetles), 20, 81, 131, 315, 423

Fish, varieties of, 28, 98, 100; culture, 139, 140; in boiling springs, 416

Fishers, their attire, 14; method of shooting by firelight, 364; net drawing, 451; the law of caste among, 473; their allegiance to Rome, 549

Fishing, by torchlight, 79, 94; with baskets, 94, 404

Flamboyant, 38

Floral offerings to Buddha, 61, 201, 278

Flowers, profusion of, 41, 129; at Nuwara Eliya, 141, 142, 144

Flying fish, 424, 429

— foxes, 192, 400

— squirrels, 192

Foliage, brilliant, 12, 86, 132

Footprints, legendary, 523; Christian, 525; on Allegalla, 532; on Adam’s Peak, 540, 541

Forest Department, 344

Forres, 534

Fort Austenburg, 406

Fort Frederick, 407, 411

Frescoes, in rock-temple of Dambulla, 242; at Sigiri, 247

Frogs, 38; embedded in stone, 68 n.; green, 400

Fruit, varieties of, 28; tropical, cool when first gathered, 307

Fungi, brilliant, 326

Galgé, cell for chief priest, 296, 308

Galkulum, 267

Galle, its treacherous harbour, 6, 7, 429, 432; relics of Portuguese and Dutch at, 17; Buddhism at, 70; its lighthouse, 432; coral reefs, ib.; its excellent roads to Colombo, 470, 475

Gal Sannaso, 308

Gal Vihara, 395

Gambling, Singhalese love of, 17; leads to crime, 480, 481

Gampola, 129, 285, 498

Gangarowa, 502

Gemming, 149

Gems, the gem notary, 315; gems and gem pits, 315-324; legislation concerning, 323

Giant’s canal, 258, 264

Giant’s tank, 251

Gigantic bean, 89, 401

— images, 395

Gloriosa superba, 470, 479

Glow-worm, 315

Goats, long-legged, 294

Gobbs, 74

Gogerly, the Rev, J., 204

Goldsmith’s curse, 182

Gordon, Sir Arthur Hamilton, as governor, 258-260

Gordon Cumming, John, 1st chena Inspector, 344; his diary, 348

Grain, suitable to dry soil, 255

Grammars in rhyme, 206

Grasshoppers, 327

Grassy plains, 135

Grave-stones, domestic use for, 337

Green, predominance of, amongst submarine animals, 432; prevalence of, in birds and butterflies, 469

Gregory, Lake, 139

— Sir William, 139, 257

Grove of the Tank Gods, 398

Gunner’s quoin, 397

Gutta-percha, 188

‘Habsidum,’ or retention of breath, 296

Haeckel, Ernst, the naturalist, 379

Hak-galla, 152

Haldummulla, 315

Hambantota, 327, 435, 457

Hanomoreyos outcasts, 379

Hanwella, 311

Happy Valley Mission, 330-333, 577

Haputale, 327, 330; its railway system, 112, 329; its pass, 328

Hardy, Rev. Richard Spence, 204, 205, 213

Hare, mark on moon, Buddhist legend concerning, 211 n.

Hat-bodin, seven Bo-trees, 446

Havelock, Sir Arthur, 305

Haye, Admiral de la, 412

Head-covering, Tamil and Singhalese customs regarding, 85

Hedgehog-grass, 89

Hendala, leper hospital at, 444

Hibiscus, 33

Hindo-galla, 176

Hindoo-Buddhist procession, 211, 314

Hindoo images in Buddhist temples, 58, 196, 242

Hoffmeister on Kandy, 174

Holy Coat, 233

— Foot, or Feet, 523-525

— Footprint, claimed by various creeds, 523, 540, 541, 542

— Girdle, 231

Holy oil, how obtained, 228

— places in the forest, 398, 400

— teeth, a complete set, 226

— Tooth, 206-235; burnt, 222; manufactured, 222, 223, 225

— Trousers, 237

Home-sick Britons, 29

Honey-sucker, 194

Hooker, Sir Joseph, on gutta-percha, 188

Hornets, 151

Horoscope, 197

Horse-keepers, 26, 362

Horses, 362

Horton Plains, 134

Hospitals, 56, 333

Hot-springs, 415

Hounds, 169

Hydrophobia, 56, 494

Ibn Batuta, Moorish traveller, 39, 446, 538

Idol’s eyes, 70

Iguana, 80, 431

Images, Hindoo, in Buddhist temples, 58, 196

India-rubber tree, 106; avenue at Peradeniya, 187; how india-rubber is collected from, 187

Industrial homes and schools, 10, 332

Infidel books, 589

Inheritance, law of, 489

Inscriptions on rock or slabs, 244, 309; the ‘Galpota,’ 391

Insects, noisy, 20

Iranative, snake-temple on, 91

Iron-wood, 38, 132

Irrigation works, 173, 250-264

Ixora, 387

Jackal’s horn, 302

Jackals, 171, 349, 355

Jaffna, Missions at, 554; the Tamil College, 565-570; the Iona of Southern India, 568; devastated by cyclones, 582

Jak-tree, 119, 215

Jambu-tree, 365

Jay, blue, 149

Jaya-wewa, 303

Jetawanarama, temple at Pollonarua, 393; irrigation works, 398

Jinrikisha, 8

Juggernath car, 314, 326, 342

Jungle fever, remedy for, 111

Jymkana, 143

Kaasyapa, the parricide, 246, 285

Kabragoya, 80, 431

Kaduganawa, 500

— Pass, 111, 122, 128

Kala-wewa tank, 249; its feeders, 252

Kalidas, poet, 445

Kaloona, King, 285

Kalpitiya, 93, 95

Kalutara, 472

Kandy, its library, 118; ancient approach, 122, 123, 201; its history, 172; its kings’ funeral ceremonies, 175; chiefs’ dresses, 177; ladies’ dresses, 180; four Hindoo temples at, 215

Kannya, its hot-springs, 415

Kanthalay tank, 251, 256, 398, 400, 405

Kapok, 121

Kapuas (devil-dancers), 183, 196, 199, 314, 585

Kapurales, 215, 216

Karajo or Parangi, 586

Karative salt-pans, 96

Kataragam Devale, temple, 215, 336

Kattadia (devil-priest), 196, 197

Kattregam (Kataragama), 253, 398, 464

Kelany Ferry, 39; its bridge of boats, 57; temple, 58; an inland town B., 306, 449

Kiklomani Mount, 139, 147

Kingfishers, 363, 405

Kirti Nissanga, King, 384, 391

Kitool, 182

Knox, Robert, captivity of, 283, 412

Kopay Church, fall of steeple, 583

Kumara Pokuna, 394

Kurukkan (grain), 255, 262

Kurunegalla, 241, 402, 497

Kushta, Rajah, 443, 444

Kutara Daas, king and poet, 445

Kuttam Pokuna, 303

‘Lagerstrœmia regina,’ 114

Lagoons, 38; how formed, 39, 74, 363; salt formations in, 456

Lajji-tissa, King, 276

Lake Gregory, 139

Lakes, artificial, 38, 39, 250

Langdon, the Rev. Samuel, 330, 331, 577

Lanka, 288, 384, 449

— Dwipa, the Happy Isle, 91

— Tileka, 498

Lantana, 345

Layard, Sir Charles Peter, 52

Leeches, 83, 84, 184-186

Legends and folk-lore, 243

Le Mesurier, Mr., 139

Lemon-grass, 136, 137

Leopards, miscalled chetahs in Ceylon. See Chetahs

Leper King, 443, 444; hospital, 444

Lettuce-tree, 38

Lighthouses, 448

Lilies, water, 82, 298; white (virgin), 403, 421, 471; the Gloriosa superba, climbing lily, 470

Litigation, prevalent among the Singhalese, 489

Lizards, 80, 81, 400, 403, 453

Loris, little, 302

Lotus blossoms, 298, 310, 387; gold and silver representations of, 206, 210, 286

Lowa-maha-paya, Great Brazen Temple, 279-281

Luminous creatures, 315

Lunatics, 26

Lyrics, Christian, 593

Madoolseme, 338

Madulsima Mountains, 458

Maha Eliya (Horton Plains), 134

Maha-Sen, King, 251, 397-400, 405, 463

Maha-Wansae dynasty, 384

Maha-wanso chronicles, 204, 268, 283

Mahadova, 338

Mahagam, ancient city of, 458

Mahindo, royal missionary, 305-307

Mahindo’s bed, rock-ledge, 308

Maidenhair fern, 308

‘Makin’ a toil of it!‘, 519

Malaria in Dekanda Valley, 111

Maligawa, Tooth temple at Kandy, 174, 201, 206

Mana grass, 136

Mandeville, Sir John (fourteenth century), 549

Mangosteen, 473

Mangrove, 79

— swamps, 363, 471

Mantis, praying, 193

Manuscripts, ancient, 204-206

Maradankadawalla, 267

Maravilla, 103

March, on the, 347

Marine convolvulus, 80, 90, 421, 471

Masks, hideous, 183

Matale, 238, 239

Matara, 412, 445, 451

Mavalipuram submerged, 451

Memecylon tinctorium, 299

Midwifery, native, 560

Migration of butterflies, 147

Mihintale, 271, 276, 277, 303; its 1,840 steps, 305

Mildew, 42, 272

Milk, Singhalese objection to, 81; offerings of, 91, 291, 387

Millepedes, 194

Mimosa pudica, 301

— sensitiva, 190

Minery Lake, 251, 252, 384

Minery village, 398

Miracle plays at Chilaw, 101

Mission, native, 574; Happy Valley, 577; Tamil coolie, 589; Kandyan Itinerancy, 595

Missionary detraction, 578

Missions, chronological table, 554; summary of, 555; American, commenced, 557; Wesleyan, 571; Native, to Burmah, 578; Baptist and Presbyterian, 579 n.; Salvation Army, 579; Episcopal, 580; to Portuguese burghers, 604

Models of hands, arms, eyes, and ears, as thanksgiving offerings, 464 n.

Mohammedan festival, 69

— mosque, characteristics of, 93

Monara or Mayura-paya, 279

Monastic records graven on rock, 310

Mongoose, 75, 95; antipathy to cobra, 76 n.

Monkeys, 78, 87-89, 459; mischievous tricks of, 380

Monoliths, 268, 273, 274, 277, 281, 303

Monsoon, seasons of, 40

Monteiro, Juan, first Catholic primate of Ceylon, 37, 550

Moondim Aar Lake, 369

Moon-stones (columns), ancient sculptural designs on, 278, 287, 390

— gems, 149, 319

Moormen (Mohammedans), 15, 93, 94, 315, 316, 458

Mosquito, 79, 381; its fecundity, 140

Mouse-deer, 169, 459

Mudaliyar, dress of, 178

Mulgirigalla, Buddhist monastery, 454, 455

Munro, Sir Hector, 412

Murders to cause false accusation, 483, 484

Murray, Mr. A., inventor of clay sluice-pipes, 261

Musical instruments, 183, 266

— shellfish, 364

Naga Pokuna, 306

Naga-dipo, Isle of Serpents, 91, 377

Nainativoe, snake-temple on, 91

Nairs, peculiar undress of high-caste women, 248

Names, descriptive, 149; of persons, 490; of estates, 520-522

Nanu-Oya, 128, 130, 139, 328

Nationalities, divers, in Ceylon, 14, 15

Nattoor, river, 375

Navatkuda, 365

Negombo fort, 106, 107

— lake, 79, 104

Nellore, 555

Nestorian Christians in Ceylon, 548

Nests, curious moths, 193; peculiar character of birds’, 194, 195

New Year, Tamil and Singhalese festival of the, 69

Nillo, 151, 152

Nine and three, mystic numbers, 214, 215, 218, 219

Nipple hills, 459

Nirvana, Buddhist ideal, contrasted with the Eternal Life of the Christian, 266, 598-601

Nutmeg-tree, 51

Nuwara Eliya, 128, 130, 137; its climate, 140, 143

Nuwara-Kalawiya, 256, 386

Nuwara-wewa, 303

Oath-stone at Pollonarua, 398

‘Observer, Ceylon,’ newspaper, 52

Officials, busy, 461 n.

Ola palm-leaf book, 118, 204, 206; copy-books, 375

Olcott, Colonel, 598

Oliphant, Laurence, 536

Oodooville, first girls’ school, 558

Opera-glasses in the temple, its effect on the priest, 208, 209

Opium crave and the use of quinine, 516

— dens, 439 n.:

Orchids, Wanna Rajah, 78; yellow ground, 136

Orchilla, lichen, 94

Ordeal, boiling oil, 474

Oriental Bank Corporation, its failure and re-organisation, 509, 510

— Library, 66, 202, 204

Otters, 139, 171

Owls, 388

Oysters at Bentota, 468

Padda-birds, 90

Padivil tank, 251

Pali, 204

Pallagolla, 130

Pallai, 584, 585

Palm, Areca, 23; blossoms of, 96; characteristics of, 115

— Coco de mer, 189

— Cocoa, 23, 434; at high elevations, 86; with several heads, 107; its cultivation encouraged by foreigners, 264, 433, 434; life on a plantation, 359, 369, 426, 427; oil and other industries connected with the cocoa palm, 435, 436; the manufacture of toddy and arrack, 436-439; legitimate uses of the cocoa palm, 440-442

Palm, Date, Thorn, Oil, and Sago, 189

— Jaggery or Kitool, 115

— Palmyra, 86, 115, 416-421; marriage with the banyan, 86, 420

— Talipot, 116

Palm-blossom, its resemblance to wheat, 96; used for decorative purposes, 181; charm against evil spirits, 442

Palm-leaf books, 118

Palm-leaf umbrella, 116, 286

Palms as lightning-conductors, 441

Pandals, erection of, 181

Pandanus, 79

Panduka-abaya, 303

Pansala schools, 63, 296, 330

Panther, 168

Pantura or Panadura, 475

Papaw, 120

Paradise in Ceylon, 520

Parangi or Karayo, 258, 262, 304, 462, 586

Park-Country, near Batticaloa, 334, 346, 372

Parroquet, yellow, 498

Patenas, 136, 137

Patipola dividing range, 328

Peacock Palace, 279

Pearl-fisheries, 5; police regulation of, 495, 496

Peepul, 105, 288, 290

Pelicans’ nests, 251 n., 358

Pengolin or ant-eater, 338

Peradeniya Gardens, 188-192

— Station, 128

Perahera, at Kandy, 200, 211, 213, 217; dates of the feast, 213; at Ratnapura, 313; at Dondra, 447

Periyakulam, 415

Perjury rampant, 486, 487

Pettah, 26-28

Phosphorescence, 20, 21, 94, 423-425

Pidaru-tala-galla, 139, 144

Pigeons, 152, 459, 467

Pig-sticking, 360

Pilgrimages, government regulation of, 464

Pilgrims, aged, 533, 535

Ping-chattie (water-jar), 468-470

Pioneer corps, 125

Plains, Horton, 134; Totapella, 135; Elk, 136; Agra, ib.; Moonstone, ib.; Maturata, 136, 145; Kondapallé, 136; Patena, ib.; Uva, ib.; Matale or Mahatalawa, 336; Moon, 137

Planet-worship, 196, 218, 219

Planters, life of, 359, 517-523; aid in mission work, 591

Plays, ancient Buddhist, 272; Tamil, 261, 422

Pleurisy, 585

Plumbago, 324, 325

Plumeria acutifolia, 61

Poinciana regia, 38

Pokuna, Kumara, 394

— Kuttam, 303

Police work, 477-496

Pollonarua, 284, 285; derivation of name, 293; as a city, 383

Polyandry, 450 n.

Porcupine, 171, 359-361, 394, 459; its ravages on tea-plants, 513

Portuguese, their invasion of Ceylon, 550; names, ib.; present condition, 604

Potato-tree, 132, 335

Pottery, offerings of red, 400

Prakrama Bahu, King, 244, 253, 266, 285, 384, 385; his statue, audience hall, and lion throne, 389

— Seas, 252, 384

Precautions in tropical countries, 300

Prescriptions, native, 300-302

Prickly heat, 83

Processions, Buddhist and Roman Catholic, 71; Roman Catholic, at Chilaw, 101; Roman Catholic, in coffee districts, 340, 341

Progress in Ceylon, 2, 4, 5

Proverbs, 297

Provinces, 181

Puliyantivu, 363

Pussilawa, 129

Puttalam, 93, 98; Saltworks at, 96, 456

Quarries, 277

Quinine, as a cure for opium crave, 516

Races, diversity of, 14, 15, 85

Ragalla, 145

Rag offerings, 546

Railway, Colombo to Gampola, 110, 111

Rainbow, rose-coloured, 327

Rain charms, 387, 392

Rajah Battiyattissa, 306

Rajah-kariya, 6, 124, 173; abolished, 253

Rajah Singha, 206

Rama, Prince of Oude and Ravana, 134, 449, 531

Ramayana, poem, 531

Rambutan, 28

Ratnapura, 311

Rat-snakes, 41, 129, 313

Rats, 41, 152, 171

Ravana, the demon king, 134, 449, 531

Razors, cheap, 520

Red-deer, 169, 459

Red rain, 445 n.

‘Red thread’ to keep off witches, 244

Reformatory, 333

Regimental coats for coolies, 340, 520

Registration of servants, 492; of carts, 494; of dogs, 495

Relic shrines, 210, 275

Relic worship, 228; blood of Thomas à Becket, ib.; Father Arrowsmith’s hand, ib.; arm of St. Augustine, 229; the True Cross, ib.; toe-nails of St. Peter, 230; corpse of the Bishop of Ischia, ib.; Sainte Ceinture, 231

Relics, recently discovered Buddhistic, 67-69; several religious relics, 233-237

Religions, amalgamated, 58, 196, 211, 341-343

Religious conflicts, Roman Catholic, 71, 101

— intolerance, 566 n.

— orders, 37

Reptiles, 53

Rest-houses, 312, 405

Rhododendron-trees, 133

Rice, cultivation of, 109; from wrecked ships, 264

Rice-fields, terraced, 109, 239

Rice-name, baby’s, 197

Rita-galla, 350

River, the Kelani, 39, 57, 128, 311; the Maha-welli-ganga, 73, 128, 130, 139, 172, 190, 381, 386; the Maha-Oya, 80, 104, 128, 347; the Ging-Oya, 80, 104; the Luna-Oya, 82, 86, 102; the Dedroo-Oya, 89; the Moondalani, 90; Puna-Ella and Garunda-Ella, 130; Sita-Ella, 134; Nanuoya, 139; Fort M’Donald, 170; the Ping-Oya, 238; the Kala-Oya, 250; the Malwatte, 252, 263, 298; Ambanganga, 252, 386; the Kalu-Ganga, 311, 472, 473; the Manick-Ganga, 321, 465; the Kataragama, 465; the Belihul-Oya, 327; the Welawe-Ganga, ib.; the Magama, 334; the Dambera-Oya, 347; Nattoor, 375; Gindura, 430; Nilwalla-Ganga, 442, 445; Kumukkan, formerly called Kombookgam, 459; Alutgama, 466, 474; Sita-Ganga, 536

Road bungalows, 312

Roads, 475

Robert de Nobili, Jesuit, 342

Robin, Ceylon, 103

Robinson, Sir Hercules, 65, 256

Rock frescoes at Sigiri, 247

Rock-masses, huge, 240, 241; rounded, 307, 497

Rock-snake, 352, 358

Rock-temples, Hindo-Galla, 176; Alu-Vihara, 239; Dambulla, 240; Isurumuniya, 295, 528; Ella Pass, 335; Mulgirigalla, 454

Rodiya outcasts, 377-379

Rogers, Major, 155, 158, 159; memorial church to, 160, 335

Roman Catholic Mission, 341, 556, 557

Roots of trees, peculiar buttress-like, 348, 498

Royal maiden, a, 450

Rubies, 316-318

Ruby sand, 465

Rugam tank, 348

Saami Rock, Trincomalee, 407-410

Sabaragamuwa, 317, 321

Sack-tree, 84

Saints, tradition regarding stature of, 528, 529

Salt-works, north-west coast, 96-98; south-east, 456, 457

Saman, brother of Rama, 531

Sambur deer (miscalled elk), 196, 170, 171, 346, 459

Sanghamitta, 289, 307

Sanscrit, 204

Sapphires, 316-318

Satin-wood bridge, 120

‘Saved from smoke,’ 570

Schools, Wesleyan Industrial, at Colombo, 10

Scorpions, 443

Scotchmen, colonies of, 534

Screw-pine, 79

Seas of Prakrama, 252, 384

Seeds, varieties of, carried by rivers, 89; as water purifiers, 90, 382

Sensitive plant, 190

Serendib, 423

Serfdom on temple lands, 64; abolished, 253

Serpent bites, remedies for, 300, 301

— worship, 292, 293

Serpents, precautions against, 42; tradition regarding magic virtue of stone serpent, 91, 336; offerings of milk to propitiate, 91

Service Tenures Ordinance, 65, 253

Shadow, of Adam’s Peak, 540, 544; of Fuji-Yama, 544

Shark-charmers, 457

Sharks, dangers from, whilst bathing, 407, 456; and diving, 457

Shell-beds, 463

Shell-fish, musical, 364

Shrine, of St. Anna, 102; of the Tooth, 206

Sigiri, fortress of, 245, 285; rock frescoes at, 247

Singhalese children, 31, 85

— homes, 31

Sita, wife of Rama, 134, 449, 531

Siva, 92, 295

— shrine, 410

Skanda, temple to, 336

Skinner, Colonel, and the taking of Kandy, 122

— Major, the roadmaker, 122; his rations, 126; his work, 127; and the ruins of Pollonarua, 283; on district courts, 491; his prophecy, 504

Skylarks, 171

Slave Island, 38

Sluice-pipes of clay, 261, 267

Smallpox, first appearance of, in Ceylon, 124; goddess of, propitiation of, 200; terrible visitation in 1801, 386

Snake, rat-, 41, 93; sea-, 94

Snake’s Isle, 91

— temples, 91

Snakes, their fangs, 91; superstitions regarding, 91, 92; Buddhism and the worship of, 92, 292; five- and seven-headed representations of, 92, 292, 295

Snipe, 371

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 495

— for the propagation of the Gospel, 605

Southernmost known land, 448

Soysa, Charles de, 55, 103

Spice-laden breezes, 13, 25

Spiders, 381, 452, 453

Sportsman’s paradise, 361

Spotted deer, 171, 346, 459

Squirrels, 152, 171, 192, 193, 452

Sri Pada, Holy Foot, 523

Sri-patula, sacred footprint, 296

Sri Wikrema Raja Singha, King, 173

Stag’s-horn moss, 182

Stick-insects, 193

Stilts, 184

Stone books, 309, 391

— bulls, 287

Strychnine-tree, 90

Suffrein, Admiral, 412

Sula-Wansae, or Lesser Dynasty, 283

Sun-birds, 414

Sunday-labour at Hong Kong, repressive regulations, 577 n.

Sunwise turns (circles) by Pilgrims, 286, 287, 292, 314, 539

Suriya-trees, 33

Suriya-Wansae, or Solar Dynasty, 33

Tailor-bird, 195

Talavillu, 101

Talipot-leaf (palm of palms), 116-118

Talla-goya lizard, 81

Tamankaduwa district, 386

Tamarind-tree, 120

Tamblegam, brackish lake, 405

Tamil coolies as labourers, 518

— ladies, confirmation of, 98

Tangalle, 451, 454

Tanks, restoration of, 256-263; at Batticaloa, 256, 362; restoration around Pollonarua, 386

Tea, in 1660 and 1890, 2 n.; ‘golden tips,’ 5 n.; how to cool, for traveller’s drink, 382; introduction of, 507, 511; adaptive to soil, 512

Teeth, a complete set, 226

Templer, Mr. and Mrs. Philip, 175

Tennant, Sir James Emerson, 119, 250, 251, 393

Theosophy, 597

Thespesia populnea, 17, 33

Thorny plants, 82

Three and nine, mystic numbers, 214, 215, 218, 219, 325

Thunbergia, 187

Ticks, 347

Tic polonga and cobra, 293

Timber, beauty and variety of Ceylonese, 56, 57

Time and tides, 40

Tiripane tank, 267

Tissamaharama tank, 462

Tissa-wewa, 253, 256, 258, 303

Titles, official, 179, 180

Toddy and arrack, 417-419, 436-439

Toddy-drawers, 366, 417-419

‘Tooth and State,’ 203, 225

Tooth, the original, 206-228; its many temples, 221

Toparé (Pollonarua), 383, 386

Topa-Wewa, 383

Topaz, 320

Tortoises, 53-55, 75

Tortoise-shell, 16

Totapella Plains, 135, 137

Tourmaline, 321

Transmigration, 194; of Buddha as a hare, 211 n.

Travellers’ tree, 33

Tree of Life (palmyra), 86, 115, 416-421; marriage with the banyan, 86, 420

Tree worship, 288-292

Trees, peculiar buttress-like roots, 348, 498

Trincomalee, 406; additional fortification at, 407

Tulip-tree, 33

Turtle-doves, 46

Turtles, 53-55, 75

Turtles eggs, 428

Umbrellas, honorific, 116 n., 210, 212, 216, 268, 314; low caste persecuted for carrying umbrellas, 366, 368

Uva, 135, 330, 333, 511

Vavuniya-vilan-kulam tank, 251

Vaz, Father Joseph, 552

Veddahs, rock, 372, 373; their method of fire kindling, 374; village and coast veddahs, ib.; high caste, 374, 377; as archers, 375

Vegetation, nature’s laws regarding, 512

Vendeloos Bay, 375

Venomous creatures, 82

Vicarton Gorge, 238

Vidyodaya College, 66, 67, 69

Vigita-pura, 264, 265

Village hospitals, 6

Violets, 136

Votive offerings at Kattaragama, &c., 464 n.

Wakwella, 432

Walagam-bahu, King, 239, 270

Wanderoo monkeys, 78, 87, 171

Wanna Rajah orchid, 78

Wannie, the dreary, 584, 585

Wanny, the, 252, 459

Wansae, Sula-, 383; Maha-, 384; Suriya- (Solar Dynasty), ib.; Soma Suriya- (Luni-Solar race), 391

Ward, Sir Henry, 256, 344, 362

Wata Dágé, 390, 391

Watch huts, 397

Water, purified by seeds, 90, 382; ceremony of cutting the, 217; scarcity of, 255, 256; impurities of, 381

Water-cress, 130

Water-jars, meritorious, 468-470

Water-lilies, 82

Water-spouts, 40

Weaver-bird, 195

Wedding procession, 84

‘Weight in gold,’ 244, 392

Welligama, 443, 444

Wellington, the Duke of, at Trincomalee, 413

Wesleyan Mission commenced, 571

Wheel, as an emblem, 571

White cloth, the honours of the, 184, 209, 215, 314, 365, 380

Wijeyo the Conqueror, 242, 244, 464; his capital, 285

Wilderness of the Peak, 505

Williams, Sir Monier, on Buddhism, 60

Wind, land, 106

Witchcraft, 301, 302

Woods, ornamental, 56, 57

Work for women, 560

Workers wanted, 605, 606

Worms, gigantic, 194, 402

Wrightson, Mr., 259

Wytulian heresy, 280

Xavier, Saint Francis, 549

Yakkas, 249, 301, 377

Yellow parroquet, 498

Yodi Ela, 258, 304

Yoga stones, 296, 390

Young Men’s Christian Association, 570

Yule, Sir H., 325

Zebu, 26

Zenanas, 560

Zircon, 320

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One Traveller Returns. Paul Jones’s Alias. The Bishops’ Bible.

=BY HENRY MURRAY.=

A Game of Bluff.

=BY ALICE O’HANLON.=

The Unforeseen. Chance? or Fate?

=BY GEORGES OHNET.=

Doctor Rameau. A Last Love. A Weird Gift

=BY MRS. OLIPHANT.=

Whiteladies. The Primrose Path. The Greatest Heiress in England.

=BY MRS. ROBERT O’REILLY.=

Phœbe’s Fortunes.

=BY OUIDA.=

Held in Bondage. Strathmore. Chandos. Under Two Flags. Idalia. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage. Tricotrin. Puck. Folle Farine. A Dog of Flanders. Pascarèl. Signa. In a Winter City. Ariadnê. Moths.

=BY OUIDA=—continued.

Friendship. Pipistrello. Bimbi. In Maremma. Wanda. Frescoes. Princess Napraxine. Two Little Wooden Shoes. A Village Commune. Othmar. Guilderoy. Ruffino. Syrlin. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos.

=BY MARGARET AGNES PAUL.=

Gentle and Simple.

=BY JAMES PAYN.=

Lost Sir Massingberd. A Perfect Treasure. Bentinck’s Tutor. Murphy’s Master. A County Family. At Her Mercy. A Woman’s Vengeance. Cecil’s Tryst. The Clyffards of Clyffe. The Family Scapegrace. The Foster Brothers. The Best of Husbands. Found Dead. Walter’s Word. Halves. Fallen Fortunes. What He Cost Her. Humorous Stories. Gwendoline’s Harvest. Like Father, Like Son. A Marine Residence. Married Beneath Him. Mirk Abbey. Not Wooed, but Won. Two Hundred Pounds Reward. Less Black than We’re Painted. By Proxy. High Spirits. Under One Roof. Carlyon’s Year. A Confidential Agent. Some Private Views. A Grape from a Thorn. From Exile. Kit: a Memory. For Cash Only. The Canon’s Ward. The Talk of the Town. Holiday Tasks. Glow-worm Tales. The Mystery of Mirbridge. The Burnt Million. The Word and the Will. A Prince of the Blood.

=BY C. L. PIRKIS.=

Lady Lovelace.

=BY EDGAR A. POE.=

The Mystery of Marie Roget.

=BY E. C. PRICE.=

Valentina. Gerald. Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival. The Foreigners.

=BY CHARLES READE.=

It is Never Too Late to Mend. Hard Cash. Peg Woffington. Christie Johnstone. Griffith Gaunt. Put Yourself in His Place. The Double Marriage. Love Me Little, Love Me Long. Foul Play. The Cloister and the Hearth. The Course of True Love. The Autobiography of a Thief. A Terrible Temptation. The Wandering Heir. A Simpleton. A Woman-Hater. Singleheart and Doubleface. Good Stories of Men and other Animals. The Jilt. A Perilous Secret. Readiana.

=BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL.=

Her Mother’s Darling. The Uninhabited House. Weird Stories. Fairy Water. The Prince of Wales’s Garden Party. The Mystery in Palace Gardens. The Nun’s Curse. Idle Tales.

=BY F. W. ROBINSON.=

Women are Strange. The Hands of Justice.

=BY JAMES RUNCIMAN.=

Skippers and Shellbacks. Grace Balmaign’s Sweetheart. Schools and Scholars.

=BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.=

Round the Galley Fire. On the Fo’k’sle Head. In the Middle Watch. A Voyage to the Cape. A Book for the Hammock. The Mystery of the ‘Ocean Star.’ The Romance of Jenny Harlowe. An Ocean Tragedy. My Shipmate Louise.

=BY ALAN ST. AUBYN.=

A Fellow of Trinity.

=BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.=

Gaslight and Daylight.

=BY JOHN SAUNDERS.=

Guy Waterman. The Lion in the Path. The Two Dreamers.

=BY KATHARINE SAUNDERS.=

Joan Merryweather. The High Mills. Margaret and Elizabeth. Sebastian. Heart Salvage.

=BY GEORGE R. SIMS.=

Rogues and Vagabonds. The Ring o’ Bells. Mary Jane’s Memoirs. Mary Jane Married. Tales of Today. Dramas of Life. Tinkletop’s Crime. Zeph: a Circus Story.

=BY ARTHUR SKETCHLEY.=

A Match in the Dark.

=BY HAWLEY SMART.=

Without Love or Licence.

=BY T. W. SPEIGHT.=

The Mysteries of Heron Dyke. The Golden Hoop. By Devious Ways. Hoodwinked. Back to Life.

=BY R. A. STERNDALE.=

The Afghan Knife.

=BY R. LOUIS STEVENSON.=

New Arabian Nights. Prince Otto.

=BY BERTHA THOMAS.=

Proud Maisie. The Violin-Player. Cressida.

=BY WALTER THORNBURY.=

Tales for the Marines. Old Stories Re-told.

=BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.=

The Way We Live Now. Mr. Scarborough’s Family. The Golden Lion of Granpère. The American Senator. Frau Frohmann. Marion Fay. Kept in the Dark. The Land-Leaguers. John Caldigate.

=BY FRANCES E. TROLLOPE.=

Anne Furness. Mabel’s Progress. Like Ships upon the Sea.

=BY T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.=

Diamond Cut Diamond.

=BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE.=

Farnell’s Folly.

=BY IVAN TURGENIEFF, &c.=

Stories from Foreign Novelists.

=BY MARK TWAIN.=

Tom Sawyer. A Tramp Abroad. The Stolen White Elephant. A Pleasure Trip on the Continent. The Gilded Age. Huckleberry Finn. Life on the Mississippi. The Prince and the Pauper. Mark Twain’s Sketches.

=BY SARAH TYTLER.=

Noblesse Oblige. Citoyenne Jacqueline. The Huguenot Family. What She Came Through. Beauty and the Beast. The Bride’s Pass. Saint Mungo’s City. Disappeared. Lady Bell. Buried Diamonds. The Blackhall Ghosts.

=BY C. C. FRASER-TYTLER.=

Mistress Judith.

=BY ARTEMUS WARD.=

Artemus Ward Complete.

=BY MRS. F. H. WILLIAMSON.=

A Child Widow.

=BY J. S. WINTER.=

Cavalry Life. Regimental Legends.

=BY H. F. WOOD.=

The Passenger from Scotland Yard. The Englishman of the Rue Cain.

=BY LADY WOOD.=

Sabina.

=BY CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY.=

Rachel Armstrong.

=BY EDMUND YATES.=

Castaway. The Forlorn Hope. Land at Last.

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The plural of ‘mosquito’ appears as both ‘mosquitos’ and ‘mosquitoes’ with equal frequency.

A parenthetical remark may begin at 222.16. The remark ends with the paragraph, but the opening parenthesis is missing. The opening has been placed where it makes the most sense: “(The marvel is ... one of his own!)”

An extensive publisher’s catalog at the end of the text is included here. Since space was at a premium, abbreviation and punctuation was variable. The lapses in punctuation have been addressed with no further mention here.

Footnote 185, regarding the frequent removal of civil servants, appears on p. 441. The index refers to the note on p. 420. The page number was corrected.

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Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

x.14 ADAM’S PEAK [P/F]ROM MASKELIYA Replaced. 11.25 enjoy a winter there[.] Added. 17.29 heterogeneous popula[la]tion Removed. 39.34 the[,] ever-changing sunset glories Removed. 43.30 to lay 3,000,000 egg[s] Added. 49.3 Capitan de Canella sic: Canela 74.39 all the way from [Cal/Kala]tura to Colombo Replaced. 107.20 misshap[p]en bunch of leaves Removed. 127.28 to see a magnific[i]ent network Removed. 159.40 with its sad freight[.] Added. 178.6 An enormous[,] ring Removed. 180.1 The wife of a minor chief is Menik[e/ê] Replaced. 213.27 in the Courts of Justice[,] Added. 213.38 which we have of [t]his festival Restored. 224.33 fastened our Saviour to the Cross.[’] Added. 228.37 in Lancash[ ]ire Removed. 263.6 a single rain[s-t/-st]orm Moved. 271.19 nearest the d[o/a]goba Replaced. 280.29 this [‘]Tower of Babel’ had to be taken down Added. 283.24 luxury of an Orient[i]al court. Removed. 297.20 the steed is stolen[’] Added. 300.15 the cashew-tree yields tannin[.] Added. 302.12 that the Veddahs eat a[ ]kabragoya Inserted. 357.40 [‘]See ‘Wild Men and Wild Beasts.’ Removed. 402.1 ‘The Ninetee[e]nth Century’ Removed. 389.21 composed of Moors, Hindoos[,] Buddhists, and Added. Veddahs 375.13 Many[ ]of those who were Inserted. 404.36 even the great tree cacti[i] Removed. 407.25 a time of grave anxiety.[)] Added. 407.37 whoever he may have been.[)] Added. 414.29 and scarlet h[y/i]biscus Replaced. 417.35 who are ma[r]vellously expert climbers Inserted. 435.18 it is known as copperah[.] Added. 452.3 delicious creamy buffalo-mi[l]k Inserted. 461.35 to supply building materia[l] Added. 463.13 B.C. 307[.] Added. 464.45 attributed to their intercessions.[)] Added. 484.6 the walls of Galle g[oa/ao]l. Transposed. 498.32 a bright yellow par[r]oquet Inserted. 513.13 above the sea-level[.] Added. 548.23 to a very great exte[x/n]t Replaced. 557.10 represented as wor[hs/sh]ippers Transposed. 592.29 white men would contemptuou[s]ly have Inaerted. described 599.43 I am there shall also My servant be[,/.] Replaced. 612.43 Hat-bodin, seven [b/B]o-trees Replaced. 613.26 its bridge of boat[s,] Added. 613.28 an inland town [B.] ? v1.16 of a delight[f]ul cruise Inserted. 17.62 or, Memoirs o[f] a Hindoo Inserted. a2.31 From Information [r/R]eceived. Replaced. a2.75 Gaspard de [G/C]oligny Replaced. a5.46 Geoff[or/re]y Hamilton. Replaced. a6.56 with [ ] missing text a11.62 STA[N]LEY L. WOOD. Restored. a19.48 po[t/s]t 8vo, cloth, 2_s._ net; Replaced. a24.19 Six Ill[l]ustrations Removed.