CONTENTS. Xlll 



PART 11. 

 CEYLON. 



CHAPTER XXL 



COLOMBO. 



PAGK 



Madras to Colombo. — Farewell to Jungle Fever. — The Queen of the 

 Tropics. — The Singhalese. — The Native Shops. — Exorbitant 

 Duty on Methylated Spirits. — An Appeal, and its Result. — Public 

 Opinion. — A Protest — Legislation for the "Odd Man." — The 

 Sea View Hotel. — Natives as Collectors. — A Morning's Work. — 

 How to Clean and Preserve Echini. — The Gatherings of one Day. 

 — The Fish Market. — The Colombo Museum and its Director. — 

 Native Taxidermists. — Need of European Preparateurs in the 

 East Indies. — An Obliging Firm 235-250 



CHAPTER XXn. 



THE NORTHERN PROVINCE, 



Trip to Jaffna. — ThePaumben Passage. — Jaffna. — Coral Gathering. — 

 The Beauties of Living Coral. — Shallow Waters. — A Harvest of 

 Cartilaginous Fishes. — Hldndbaii. — Large Rays. — A Handsome 

 Shark. — A Rare and Curious Fish. — Rham2)liohatis ancylostomus 

 Described. — Sea Turtles. — Questionable Value of Native Help. — 

 Start for Mullaitivu. — Jaffna to Point Pedro. — The most Northern 

 Point of Ceylon. — Native Cussedness again. — The Slowest Sailing- 

 Craft on Record 251-262 



CHAPTER XXni. 



MULLAITIVU. 



An Unwholesome Village Site. — Dirt and Discomfort. — Crocodile 

 Hunting. — Cannibalism and Leprosy among Crocodiles. — Flying 

 Foxes. — A Big HauL — A Heronr}'. — Hot Jungle. — Death of Mr. 

 Leys by Sunstroke. — Mammals. — A Live Manis and its Doings. — 

 On Short Rations. — Exasperating Failure to Receive Supplies. — 

 Tropical Hunger. — A Gloomy Proposition Strangely Refuted. — A 

 Delicious Beverage. — Journal of a Trip Into the Interior. — Mon- 

 key-shooting. — Character of the Jungle. — Joseph Emerson. — 

 Elephant Skeletons. — Self-buried Frogs. — Two Hundred Mon- 

 keys in Four Hours. — Their Fleetness in the Tree-tops. — Deer. — 

 Overland Journey to Jaffna. — Elephant Pass. — Return to Co- 

 lombo 263-280 



