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INDEX. 



Sunstroke rare, i. 78. 



Superstitions and popular notions: — 



Hindu, as to shade of tamarind, i. 1 19 ?(. 



Singhalese idi-a of its coolness, ib. 



Singhalese folk-lore regarding bears, i. 



139 n. 



leopards, i. 140. 



■ mungoos, i. 146, 147. 



kabra-goya, i. 183. 



cobra-de-capello, i. 194. 



use of snake-stones, i. 197-9. 



sand-stone island, i. 443. 



elephants' burial-place, ii. 399 , 



400. 



caste of Veddabs, ii. 442. 



as to poison of "sfr?/c^KOS,"i. 101. 



of the evil eye, i. 540 w.;ii. 176. 



as to Goeo-nut not growing out 



of sound of the human voice, 



ii. 125. 



as to Adam's Peak, ii. 129-131. 



as to the existence of a subter- 

 ranean river, ii. 536, ib. n, 



537 n. 

 as to a deliverer coming from 



India, ii. 582 n. 

 Suria trees, common in Ceylon, i. 117. 



at Galle and Colombo, ii. 110. 



caterpillars on, ib. 



Surveys, Dutch, of Ceylon Introd. xxviii. n. 

 Sutras, i. 521. 



Swallows, i. 167. See Birds. 

 Swine's flesh, why prohibited, i. 76 n. 

 Sykes, Colonel, his opinion as to the sacred 

 tooth, i. 524 n. 



has denied that Buddhism is atheistic, 



i. 528 «. 

 Syi'ens, described by Iliouen Thsang, i. 334. 



Tabari, Arabian geographer, i. 595 n. 

 Tailor- bird, i. 168. See Birds. 

 Talawas, what, i. 27. 



near Bintenne, ii. 452. 



Talipat palm, its uses, i. 109. 



books made of its leaves, i. 110. 



Tamana trees, i. 17 w. 



Tamarind trees, i. 119. (S'ee Trees. 



belief that the leaves are cool, ib. n. 



Tamba-panni, origin of this name for Ceylon, i. 

 17 n., 549. 



name occurs also in South India, ib. 



origin of the name, i. 17, 368. 



Tamblegam, lake of, ii. 491. 



pearls, ib. 



Tamil villages, ii. 513. 



their husbandry, ii. 514, 533. 



Tamils. See Malabars. 



Tanks, their origin, i. 27, 364. See Irrigation. 



their construction and numbers, i. 365. 



their dedication to temples, ib. 



the first tank in Cevlon, i. 338, 431. 



Tanks project for restoring them, ii. 432. 



• facilities offered for restoration of tank at 



Horrabora, ii. 436. 

 Tapestry, origin of modern, ii. 462, ib., n. 

 Taprobane, Greek name for Ceylon, i. 8, 549, 

 562. 



believed by Kant to be Madagascar, i. 11 n. 



derived from Tamba-panni, which see. 



Tarentula, MygaJe fasciata, i. 295. 



fight with a cockroach, i. 296. 



numerous at Gampola, ii. 223. 



Tarshish, i. 554 «., 592 ; ii. 99. See Galle. 

 Tartar Princes, their rise, i. 635. 

 Tavalam, a caravan of bullocks, ii. 181. 

 Tavernier, eiTor as to Ceylon elephants, ii. 388. 



visited Galle in 1648, ii. 65 m. 



Tea-plant, cultivated at Pusilawa, i. 89 ; ii. 249. 

 Teak-tree, i. 116. 

 Tectibranchiata, i. 235. 

 Tellurium, i. 29. 



Templeton, Dr., B.A., his knowledge of Ceylon 

 Introd. ssx. 



his valuable aid in the present work, ib. 



his papers on Sonneratia acida, i. 86 n. 



his cultivation of Zoology, i. 127. 



notice of Ceylon Monkeys, i. 131. 



Temperature of Ceylon, i. 68. 



of Kandy, i. 68 n. 



in the mountains, i. 69. 



Temperature of fruit, how produced, i. 121 



Temples, their form, i. 489. See Wiharas. 



Rock temples, i, 489. 



description of a modern temple, ii. 145. 



Temple lands, their origin, i. 363. 



Termites, white ants, their ravages, i. 253. 



whence comes their moisture, ib. n. 



Tetracera at Cuba, i. 4 n. 



Tettan-cotta seeds, i. 101; ii. 411. 



Thaun, Philip de, on the elephant, ii. 297. 



Theban scholar, informant of Palladius, i. 562 n. 



Theban scholar, his story and statements, i. 

 563 n. 



saw the Besadse, i. 593 w. 



coincidence of his and Knox's statements, 



ii. 65 n. 



describes the Vcddahs, ii. 438 n. 



Theobaldus' Bestiaries, ii. 295. 



Theophrastus' account of fishes on dry land, i. 

 227, 228. 



Thorn fortifications, i. 107, 466, ib. n. 



Thorn gates, ib. 



Thorny trees, i. 107. 



Thunberg, account of the snake-stone, i. 201. 

 remark about the goorcenda, ii. 604 n. 



travelled from Maturu to Colombo in 1 770, 



ii. 65 n. 



Thunder, i. 57. 



Thwaites, Mr., Director of the Botanic Gardens 

 at Ceylon, i. 84. 



his researches into the botany of the 



island, i. 85. 

 his Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylanica,i. 85. 



