CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Up-country Cemeteries : One Secret of their Fre- 
quently Neglected Appearance : — 
Ceylon churchyards ; A low-country trip ; Kurune- 
gala; Marching with coolies ; Jungle-fever; “Died 
on the road ; Coolies’ burials ; A funeral of im- 
portance ; Master’s gold.” 
CHAPTER XV. 
The Malabar Cooly : — 
Cooly immigration long ago ; A fair day’s work ; 
Method in picking crop ; Prompt punishment necess- 
ary ; Master *and cooly ; Petty faults ; Cleanliness 
at a discount. 
CHAPTER XVI. 
A Gentlemanly Assistant” : — 
An assistant’s luggage ; Worse thau useless ; An 
artist ; A sudden disappearance ; Perseverance ; A 
colonial life ; Chances ; Mr. Stediman. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
A Prodigy of A Scotch Superintendent : — 
Merit and promotion ; A good training ; An old 
pulper ; The old planter ; The intelligent young 
planter ; A good son ; Good advice ; Bid© your time. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
The Value of Vigorous Lines of Stirring Poetry ; — 
Happy rats ; Proprietory managers ; Unsuccessful 
speculation ; Failure of the Nuwara Eliya brewery ; 
Farming on the hills ; The future ; An isolat^- 
estate. 
CHAPTER XIX. 
An Estate in Olden Times, A Prison wnth Forest 
Trees for Retaining Wall>s 
Mr. Green ; Felling forest ; The expensive style ; 
Ferguson’s Directory ; A fiscal’s sale ; An assaiilt- 
at-arms ; Flodden field. 
CHAPTER XX. 
Selecting, Surveying, and Purchasing Land, m 
the Olden Days : — 
Applications and surveys ; Land-sale advertisements ; 
The Survey Dejiartmeiit ; Boundaries ; Disputed 
boundaries ; Native excuses ; Native interests ; Re- 
servations. 
