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INDEX. 



Fishes, similar mysterious re-appearances else- 

 wlieie, i. 210 n. 



method of taking them by hand, i. 210. 



a tish decoy, i. 211 «. 



fish faUing from clouds, i. 21 1 , 212 ?j, 226. 



buried alive in mud, i. 212, 218, 220. 



Mr. Yarrell's theory controverted, i. 213. 



travelling overland, i. 214, 227. 



instances in Guiana and Siam, ih. 



faculty of all migratory fish for discover- 

 ing water, i. 214 n. 



fishes on dry land in Ceylon, i. 215. 



fish ascending trees, i. 215, 216. 



excerpt from letter by l»Ir. Morris, ib. n. 



Anabas scandens, i. 216. 



DalJorfs ststeinent, anticipated by Abou- 



zeyd, i. 217 n. 



accidents when fishing, ib. 



burying fishes and travelling fish, i. 



218—221. 



occurrence of similar fish in Abyssinia 



and elsewhere, i. 218, 2 19 «, 221 n. 



statement of the patriarch Mendes,i. 219?J. 



knowledge of habits of Melania employed 



judicially by E. L. Layard, i, 221 n. 



illustrations of asstivating fish and ani- 

 mals, i. 221—223. 



ffistivating shell-fish andvyater-beetles, J6.?«. 



fish in hot water, i. 224, ib. n. 



list of Ceylon fishes, i. 224, 225. 



Professor Huxley's memorandum on the 



fishes of Ceylon, i. 229—231. 



Dr. Gray's memorandum, i. 231, 232. 



—^ migration of fishes known to the Greeks 

 and Romans, i. 226. 



musical fish, ii. 468 — 471, 470 n. 



fish tax instituted, ii. 56. 



abolished, ii. 131. 



singular result, ii. 148. 



Fisher caste, ii. 129, 131. 



readiness to embrace Christianity, ii. 



131 n. 



Fitch, Ralph, the first Englishman who visited 

 Ceylon, ii. 63. 



Fitz Roy, Admiral, Introd. xxxiv. 



his theory of wells in coral, i. 23 n. 



on rain in the Galapagos, i. 67 n. 



' his theory of tides in the Indian seas, ii. 



116. 



Flamingoes, i. 1 73. See Birds. 



Fleas, i. 267. See Insects. 



Flies, their instinct in discovering carrion, ii. 

 370, ib. n. 



mosquitoes, the plague of, ii. 115 n. 



Flora of Ceylon. See Botany. 



Flowers, their use in Buddhist rites, i. 366. 



Flowering trees. See Trees. 



Flying Fox, i. 135, 136. See Mammalia. 



drinking toddy, ii. 142. 



Foe Koue ki. See Fa Hian. 



Food, its quantity as affecting health, i. 76. 



best taken after sunset, ib. 



Footstep, the Sucred, on Adam's Peak, i. 571; 

 ii. 133. 



■ the footstep of Satan, ib. n. 



Forbes', ISIajor, now Colonel, Eleven Years in 

 Ceylon, 1840, Introd. xxv.; ii. 85 ra. 



Forced labour. See Raja-kariya. 



Forest, method of felling, i. 104. 



solitude and rarity of animals, ii. 413. 



Fortifications in early ages, i. 465. 



Fra J'lrdanus on cinnamon, i. 600. 



his travels in India, i. 637 n. 



Eraser, General, his map of Ceylon, i. II re. 



difficulties to be surmounted in construct- 

 ing it, ib. 



aided by Major Skinner and Captain Gall- 



wey, ib. 



his estate at Rangbodde, ii. 259. 



Frederic, Cajsar, his account of Ceylon, i. 642 n. 



French visitCeylon and seize Trincomalie, ii.60. 



ambassador seized and his suite flogged, 



ib. n. 



attempts on Trincomalie, ii. 485. 



Fretz, Lieut., singular wound, ii. 333. 



Frogs, i. 202 ; ii. 155. See Reptiles. 



Frtiit wholesome in Ceylon, i. 77. 



its varieties, ib. 



inferior from want of care, i. 77. 



European fruits in Ceylon, i. 89. 



power of trees to produce coolness, i. 121. 



Fruit trees, often devoted to demons, i. 540 n. 



Furniture, ancient, i. 496. 



Gahaliyas, a degraded race, ii. 571. 



Galkisse, its temple, ii. 144. 



Gallas, origin of the tribe, i. 327, 626 ; ii. 105 n. 



confounded with galliis, ii. 1 05 n. 



Galle-baak, derivation of, ii. 152. 

 Galle, Point de, its harbour, i. 52. 



its climate, i. 67. 



the great emporium of ancient trade, i. 



586, 588. 

 the Kalah of the earlier geographers, i. 589, 



591. 

 the Tarshish of the Phoenicians, i. 590; 



ii. 100. 



■ the emporium of the Chinese, i. 610. 



insecurity of the harbour, i. 52 n.\ ii. 116. 



rain at, i. 67 m. 



first seen by the Portuguese, ii. 7. 



its state under them, ii. 28. 



beauty of the scenery, ii. 99. 



its antiquity as an emporium, ib. 



canoes, double, ii. 103. 



fortification, ii. 104. 



Queen's House, ii. 105. 



people of many nations at, li. 106. 



its trade, ii. 108, 109. 



Suria trees and their caterpillars, ii. 1 10. 



the native town, ii. 111. 



drive in the suburbs, ib. 



tides at Galle, ii. 115. 



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