item: #1 of 13 id: 13325 author: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir title: Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon date: None words: 163106 flesch: 74 summary: Coracias Indica, _Linn._ Harpactes fasciatus, _Gm_. Ceryle rudis, _Linn._ Merops Philippinus, _Linn._ viridis, _Linn._ quincticolor, _Vieill_. keywords: account; air; animals; ants; appearance; approach; attention; belief; birds; black; blyth; body; branches; brown; ceylon; ceylon elephant; close; coast; cobra; coco; coffee; colombo; colour; common; conch; continent; corral; country; cram; creature; day; death; deer; description; distance; dohrn; dutch; eastern; effect; elephant; escape; europe; european; eye; eyes; fabr; fact; faculty; fall; fam; family; feet; female; fish; fishes; flight; following; food; footnote; force; forest; form; government; gray; greek; ground; guén; habits; hagen; half; hand; head; helic; herd; hind; hist; history; hope; horse; hübn; icon; iii; illustration; inches; india; insects; instance; island; jungle; kandy; kelaart; lam; latr; layard; leach; leaf; leaves; left; legs; length; leopard; life; line; linn; list; little; low; man; means; mode; monog; mud; nat; natives; nature; new; niet; night; northern; numbers; nut; occasion; ones; open; operation; opportunity; order; parts; passage; pearl; period; pfeiff; place; point; portion; position; power; present; proc; red; reeve; reptiles; saw; sea; search; season; second; shells; singhalese; singular; sir; size; smith; snakes; soc; sounds; south; species; specimens; spot; state; stomach; story; strength; structure; subject; sun; surface; syst; tail; taking; tame; tanks; teeth; time; trees; trunk; tusks; use; vert; vicinity; vol; water; way; weight; westw; white; wild; wings; wlk; work; years; young; zool; ælian cache: 13325.txt plain text: 13325.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 13552 author: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir title: Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 date: None words: 244593 flesch: 70 summary: [Footnote 3: [Greek: Argellia] pro [Greek: nargellia], from _narikela_, the Sanskrit, and _narghyl_, Arab, for the coco-nut palm. They are now busy of an evening eating the figs of _Ficus elastica_, of which we have a long avenue in the grounds, as I dare say you remember. keywords: a.d; account; adam; air; anarajapoora; anim; animals; appearance; arrival; asiat; attention; authority; b.c; bahu; beauty; belief; birds; black; blyth; body; books; branch; british; brother; buddha; buddhism; capital; centuries; century; ceylon; chap; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; cinnamon; city; climate; close; coast; coco; colombo; colour; commerce; common; conch; construction; countries; country; cram; cultivation; cuv; day; days; death; des; description; dimensions; distance; ditto; dohrn; dutch; dutugaimunu; dynasty; early; earth; east; eastern; effect; elephants; end; english; epitome; european; evidence; exhibit; existence; extent; fabr; fact; faith; fall; fam; family; feet; fish; fishes; flowers; following; food; footnote; foreign; forests; form; fourth; fruit; galle; gems; general; gold; government; gray; great; greek; ground; guén; habits; hagen; half; hand; head; heat; hian; hills; history; hope; house; hübn; i. ch; i. p.; ibid; iii; illustration; inches; india; influence; information; inhabitants; insects; instances; interior; iron; irrigation; island; jaffna; journ; jungle; kandy; kelaart; king; kingdom; knowledge; labour; lam; lands; latr; layard; leach; leaves; length; level; lib; life; like; linn; list; literature; little; mahawanso; malabar; man; means; miles; modern; monog; monsoon; mountain; narrative; nat; national; natives; nature; near; new; niet; night; north; northern; number; nut; occasion; order; original; pali; palm; particular; parts; passage; peak; people; period; pfeiff; place; plains; plants; pliny; point; portion; portuguese; position; possession; power; practice; prakrama; present; priesthood; priests; proc; ptolemy; que; race; rain; rajaratnacari; rajavali; records; reeve; reign; religion; return; rice; rivers; rock; royal; sacred; sand; sea; search; season; second; shells; ships; shore; sidenote; singhalese; singular; sir; size; soc; soil; son; south; southern; sovereigns; species; state; steph; stone; subject; sun; surface; syst; system; tanks; temperature; temples; time; trade; translation; tree; trincomalie; turnour; upwards; use; v. p.; vert; vicinity; vii; vol; voyages; water; west; western; white; wijayo; wind; wlk; wood; work; worship; x. p.; years; yellow; zool cache: 13552.txt plain text: 13552.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 14346 author: Knox, Robert title: An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape date: None words: 126122 flesch: 82 summary: After they have brought the Elephant which is not yet caught together with the She, into the Kings presence, if it likes him not, he commands to let him go; if it does, he appoints him some certain place near unto the City, where they are to drive him with the Females; for without them it is not possible to make him stay; and to keep him in that place until the Kings further order and pleasure is to catch him, which perhaps may not be in two or three or four Years; All which time there are great men with Souldiers appointed to watch there about him: and if he should chance to stray a little out of his bounds set by the King, immediately they bring him back fearing the Kings displeasure, which is no less than death The poorest sort have not above one room in their houses, few above two, unless they be great men. keywords: cande; captain; chap; chief; children; city; cloth; coming; concerning; corn; countrey; court; cut; day; days; death; dutch; elephants; english; god; gods; good; great; ground; hands; hath; home; honour; house; island; king; land; lay; leaves; let; little; man; manner; means; men; money; new; night; officers; order; parts; people; place; portugueze; present; read; rest; rice; river; self; service; soldiers; sorts; things; tho; thro; time; towns; tree; water; way; white; wild; women; woods; work; years cache: 14346.txt plain text: 14346.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 19550 author: Sterndale, Robert Armitage title: Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon date: None words: 207651 flesch: 73 summary: SEMNOPITHECUS _vel_ PRESBYTES JOHNII. SEMNOPITHECUS _vel_ PRESBYTES OBSCURUS. keywords: account; anderson; animal; assam; band; base; bat; bear; belly; beneath; bengal; black; blanford; blyth; body; brown; brownish; burmah; case; cat; central; ceylon; claws; close; colour; common; dark; day; deep; deer; dentition; description; distinct; dog; dusky; ears; elephant; end; eyes; family; feet; female; fine; flesh; following; food; foot; fore; form; fulvous; fur; general; genus; good; gray; great; grey; greyish; ground; habits; hairs; half; having; head; hills; himalayas; hind; hodgson; horns; illustration; inches; incisors; india; jaw; jerdon; kellaart; legs; length; light; limbs; line; long; malayan; man; membrane; middle; molars; monkey; mouse; mus; muzzle; native; near; neck; north; nose; number; ones; open; order; outer; pale; parts; place; portion; rat; red; reddish; rest; second; short; shrew; sides; sir; size.--head; skin; skull; small; species; specimen; spots; squirrel; states; sub; surface; tail; teeth; thibet; throat; tiger; time; tip; tips; toes; tree; upper; vel; water; way; white; whitish; wild; yellow; yellowish; young cache: 19550.txt plain text: 19550.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 2036 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon date: None words: 89600 flesch: 67 summary: Oh for a glass of Newera Ellia water, the purest and best that ever flows, as it sparkles out of the rocks on the mountain-tops! There are necessarily rich lots every now end then in such a large extent as the surface of the low country; but these lots usually lie on the banks of rivers which have been subjected to inundations, and they are not fair samples of Ceylon soil. keywords: animal; appearance; ball; black; ceylon; coffee; country; course; cultivation; day; deep; deer; elephant; elk; ellia; fact; feet; forest; gold; government; grass; ground; half; head; hounds; hunting; jungle; land; length; life; light; like; low; man; miles; mountain; natives; nature; newera; newera ellia; nut; pack; people; place; plain; population; present; produce; rifle; river; road; rock; size; soil; species; spot; supply; surface; time; tree; water; weight; white; wild; work; years cache: 2036.txt plain text: 2036.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 31923 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: The Pearl of India date: None words: 81946 flesch: 63 summary: The ripe nut falls upon the shore and is floated by tide and wind to other islands and coral reefs, where in due course it propagates itself and in turn begets other seeds which seek new lands in a similar manner and there plant themselves. There are not many such trees as these to be found in the known world. keywords: animals; author; away; birds; body; capital; centuries; ceylon; chapter; city; coast; cocoanut; colombo; condition; country; creatures; day; elephant; english; european; fact; feet; flowers; food; form; fruit; galle; good; government; great; green; half; height; india; island; kandy; leaves; life; man; means; men; miles; mountain; native; nature; new; north; ocean; oriental; palm; pearl; people; period; place; point; present; proper; purpose; rice; ruins; sea; shore; singhalese; size; south; southern; stone; temple; time; town; tree; tropical; water; white; wild; women; years cache: 31923.txt plain text: 31923.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 3231 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon date: None words: 91275 flesch: 75 summary: There is no doubt that many elephants far exceed this, as I have shot them so large that two tall men could lie at full length from the point of the forefoot to the shoulder; but this is not a common size: the average height at the shoulder would be about seven feet.*(*The males 7 ft.6 in., the females 7 ft., at the shoulder.) Not more than one in three hundred has tusks; they are merely provided with short grubbers, projecting generally about three inches from the upper jaw, and about two inches in diameter; these are called 'tushes' in Ceylon, and are of so little value that they are not worth extracting from the head. In the neighbourhood of Doolana I had killed many elephants some years ago, and I have no doubt we could have had good sport at this time; but V. Baker's leave was so fast expiring, and the natives' accounts of the distance through the Veddah country were so vague, that we had no choice except to push straight through as fast as we could travel, until we should arrive on the Batticaloa path. keywords: ball; bay; buck; ceylon; close; country; day; deep; deer; distance; dogs; elephants; elk; feet; forest; game; grass; ground; gun; half; head; herd; jungle; lake; left; length; man; miles; moment; open; ounce; paces; pack; plain; position; rifle; river; rogue; shooting; shot; sport; time; trees; water; wild; yards cache: 3231.txt plain text: 3231.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 36504 author: Annandale, Nelson title: Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa date: None words: 92514 flesch: 71 summary: it consists largely of diatoms, while the species of _Hislopia_ and _Arachnoidea_ possess an alimentary canal modified for the purpose of retaining flagellate organisms until they become encysted. Only two genera can be recognized in this family, _Arachnoidea_, Moore, from Central Africa, and _Hislopia_, Carter, which is widely distributed in Eastern Asia. keywords: annandale; base; bengalensis; brackish; buds; calcutta; carteri; cells; colour; ephydatia; fig; figs; form; freshwater; gemmule; genus; green; hydra; ibid; iii; indian; lacustris; lake; membrane; minute; mus; museum; plumatella; polypide; polyzoa; ponds; regards; rule; skeleton; slender; small; soc; species; specimens; spicules; sponge; spongilla; statoblasts; structure; surface; tentacles; type; var; water; zoarium; zooecia; zooecium; zool; | | cache: 36504.txt plain text: 36504.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 44408 author: Johnston, Arthur title: Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804 With Some Observations on the Previous Campaign, and on the Nature of Candian Warfare, etc., etc., etc. date: None words: 24748 flesch: 57 summary: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Hav. keywords: army; candians; candy; ceylon; command; coolies; country; day; detachment; enemy; general; king; lieutenant; march; miles; natives; night; officers; river; time; troops; | +; | | cache: 44408.txt plain text: 44408.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 51621 author: Perera, Arthur A. title: Sinhalese Folklore Notes, Ceylon date: None words: 45144 flesch: 76 summary: Once a year, when the agricultural season begins, between July and August, the in-signia of the gods are carried on elephants in procession through the streets accompanied by musicians, dancers, temple tenants and custodians of the shrine. A mohottala over service villages, holding his office during the pleasure of the head of the Dewale. keywords: bali; betel; body; buddha; carrying; caste; cattle; ceremony; ceylon; chief; child; children; class; cloth; cocoanut; dance; daughter; day; days; death; devil; deviyo; dewale; district; elephant; etc; family; father; female; festivals; field; flowers; food; god; gods; hand; head; house; husband; jackal; king; land; leaf; leaves; man; milk; moon; mother; number; oil; paddy; panguwa; penuma; people; perehera; person; pingo; place; pot; priests; procession; proprietor; rice; round; service; sinhalese; temple; tenants; term; times; tom; tree; village; water; way; white; wife; work; year cache: 51621.txt plain text: 51621.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 56614 author: None title: Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 127360 flesch: 86 summary: Is it true that a Jackal King like me is going to ask for a wedding for thee, for a Crocodile who is in the water like thee? [After the light had appeared], the God Great Vishnu thought: We must make men. Having gone to the God Saman he said, What is the use of being the owner of this world when it is in this state? keywords: account; brother; cakes; cat; city; cut; daughter; day; elder; elephant; father; field; fire; food; gamarala; girl; going; golden; good; great; ground; hand; head; home; house; jackal; jungle; king; lion; man; men; mother; night; order; persons; place; prince; princess; province; rakshasa; rice; river; saying; sister; story; taking; thou; time; tom; tree; turtle; village; water; way; western; wife; woman; yaka cache: 56614.txt plain text: 56614.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 57399 author: None title: Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3) date: None words: 152430 flesch: 86 summary: Then certain men having been there, said, Here, indeed, is the tavalam place Having gone, when they came to the city of the courtesan woman, certain men having been [there] said, Here, indeed, is the tavalama place; throw down the sacks. keywords: ane; beater; box; brother; child; city; coming; country; cut; daughter; day; eating; elder; elephant; father; flower; food; gamarala; girl; good; hand; home; house; king; law; leopard; looking; man; manner; marriage; men; minister; mother; night; north; order; persons; place; prince; princess; province; queen; rakshasa; rice; river; royal; saw; saying; sister; son; stone; story; things; thou; thought; time; tom; tree; turtle; village; vol; water; way; western; wife; woman cache: 57399.txt plain text: 57399.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 58889 author: Parker, H. (Henry) title: Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 3 (of 3) date: None words: 157036 flesch: 85 summary: (He frightened other men in the same manner, and secured pingo loads of coconuts, turmeric, chillies, salt, onions, rice, vegetables, and a bundle of clothes. When he was coming home, [four] other men having seen that he brought the wealth, the men went to break [into] the hidden treasure. keywords: account; ane; animals; ayiwanda; beater; bed; body; box; boy; brahmana; brother; bull; calling; carpenter; cattle; child; children; city; clothes; coming; country; crow; cut; daughter; day; days; dead; deer; door; drink; eating; elder; elephant; father; field; fire; firewood; fish; flower; folk; food; forest; friend; gamarala; girl; god; golden; goods; ground; hand; head; hettirala; hettiya; home; house; husband; jackal; jungle; king; kiwa; kiyala; law; letter; life; line; lion; lord; man; manner; marriage; masuran; men; midst; milk; minister; money; morning; mother; night; north; order; page; parrot; path; persons; place; pot; prince; princess; province; queen; raja; rakshasa; read; rice; ring; river; road; rock; royal; saw; saying; set; ship; sleep; sokka; son; stay; story; sword; tales; teacher; thee; thief; things; thought; time; tom; tree; turtle; tusk; variant; village; vol; want; water; way; western; wife; woman; work; yaka; youth cache: 58889.txt plain text: 58889.txt