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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
A Coffee Planter’s Work Thirty Years Aoo ; — 
In the jungle thirty years ago ; A lonely bunga- 
low ; Jungle fowl, elk, and porcupine ; rats ; 
Wiki bees. 
CHAPTER II. 
Money, Resthouses, Transport, and Old Soldiers : — 
Money in days of old ; Robberies and murders ; Car- 
rying rice to Dimbula ; An old soldier ; The old 
Ramboda resthouse ; Planting in Upper Ramboda ; 
Upper Ramboda. 
CHAPTER III. 
How the Coast Advance System Began, Rk'e De- 
livery and Gifts of Cumblies ; — 
Procuring coolies ; Want of accounts ; Dear rice ; 
Coolies’ accounts ; Pay-day ; "N^ew and old cumblies ; 
Cart contractors ; Roads at any cost. 
CHAPTER IV. 
What made Coffee Planting Expensive In thh 
Olden Days : — 
Rice carts 15 miles off ; Bad roads and short sup- 
plies ; The Kanakappillai ; Cumblies ; Weeds and 
suckers ; Scarcity of tools. 
CHAPTER V. 
Why Coffee Planting Did Not “ Pay ” in T¥m 
Early Days : — 
Pruning ; Head kangani as master ; The conductor^ 
system; Weeding; Bribery and corruption ; Borrow- 
ing rice ; Manuring and draining ; Holing ; Bolting 
and cheating. 
