CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 

 Start for Ceylon— Isolation of Estate Life — System of Manage- 

 ment—Servants—Cocoa Culture. 



CHAPTER II. 

 Ceylon House Warming— Low Country Scenery — Native 

 Dancers— Thai-Pongal Festival. 



CHAPTER III. 

 Fever— System of Medical Attendance— Trespassing Buffaloes 

 and Wild Pigs— Eclipse of the Sun— Superstitious Fears of 

 Natives — Coolie Schools — Saami House. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Difficulties of Housekeeping— Good Cooks— Description of 

 Transplanter— Vegetable Culture— Insect Pests— A Day with 

 Little Food. 



CHAPTER V. 

 A Visit to the Mountains— Four Miles uphill in a Chair- 

 Runaway Coolie— Tamil Marriages— Flights of Butterflies — 

 Coffee Blossom— Fruit Culture— Tamil English — Wild Flowers. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Book Tambi — Drapery Tambi — Native Quarrels— Monkeys 

 —Rubber Culture— Fireflies — Wild Animals. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Saami Ceremony— Snakes— Shooting Party— Kandy Festivi- 

 ties — Wesak Festival — Native Almsgiving — My Bullock 

 Hackery — Stranded on Road — Tree Cotton. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 "Big Monsoon" — Estate Work for June— Native Cure for 

 Chicken Pox —Eye Flies — Ayah — Family Names — Lost Child- 

 ren— White Ants— A New Clearing— An Elephant. 



