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In journeying through a desert the eye of the traveler lingers with interest and pleasure upon the oasis he has left, and which he is not again likely to revisit; and so, in the life of every man, there is probably some period of, shorter or longer duration on which the memory, in subsequent years, delights to dwell. Of such a character to the author was his residence in Ceylon.
During four years he lived in that interesting island as a Coffee-planter and the Editor of a newspaper, and those four years were so filled with incident, with employment, with variety and adventure, that, despite the pecuniary losses sustained in a ruinous speculation, they have ever since afforded him ample and pleasing themes for reflection.
In the following pages it has been his aim to give an interesting, and, at the same tine, a truthful picture of jungle life-such a picture as my bring it before the mind of the European reader without exaggeration or false glitter. The scenes described and the incidents recorded are such as every resident in the East will acknowledge to be common and usual to a life spent in the recesses of an Oriental forest. In such a life, scenery, inhabitants, costume, and characteristics are so different from those to which the novice has been accustomed in his European home, that they have for him at first all the effect of enchantment. It was the author’s lot to return from the East before this fresh feeling of pleased surprise had been quite removed-before the novel charm of Oriental life had worn off, to give place to satiety and monotony.
The lives of a Parsee and of a Kandian chief-which will be found, the one at the conclusion of the first, the other near the end of the second, volume-are intended to show how strangely the old life of the East, with it antiquated habits and forms of thought, is influenced by the new life of the progressive West-busy, bustling, and innovating. These accounts are founded upon facts related to the author by Parsees and Budhists. Hormanjee and Marandhan, indeed, are fictitious names, but such men have live, and are living, in India and Ceylon; nor are the events recorded of them more extraordinary than those which, for the last fifty years, have been constantly occurring, wherever Eastern and Western races have been brought into collision-a collision as much of souls as of bodies.
There is something inexpressibly pleasing in thus minutely recalling some of the happiest passages of one’s early life, particularly when the strong light of reality has been mellowed into a twilight glow by the lapse of a few intervening years; so that if the reader receive but a tithe of the pleasure in its perusal which the author has obtained from the compilation of this work, the labour of both will have been amply remunerative.
Sinhale And The Patriots 1815-1818
Author: P.E.Pieris
Our Price: $89.00
History of Ceylon Book - IV
Author: H. C. Ray,
Our Price: $39.00
Memoirs Of The Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Vol
Author: S. Paranavitana
The Rock And Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka
Author: Senake Bandaran
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