JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 CEYLON BRANCH. 



JOTTINGS FROM A JUNGLE DIARY. 

 By S. M. Burrows, Esq., c.c.s. 



begin a Paper with an apology is neither novel nor 

 admirable, yet I feel that some apology is due for 

 laying before a Literary and Scientific Society a 

 Paper with so frivolous a title and such ill-assorted contents. 

 The only possible excuse is, that to the intellectual as to the 

 physical palate a change of diet may sometimes be accept- 

 able, even though the change be from caviar to cabbage. 



The scheme of this Paper is simple almost to crudeness. It 

 is to give some account of the more recent archaeological 

 discoveries at Anuradhapura, and to describe one or two 

 places and incidents which I have come across on circuit in 

 the less beaten tracks of the North-Central Province. 



Anuradhapura. 



It may be doubted whether there is anything much more 

 exciting than the finding of a really fine archaeological 

 treasure which has lain hid for many centuries. Mr. Wallace, 

 in his "Malay Archipelago," has described the hysterical 



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