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Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker

Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon

Author
Samuel White Baker
Categories
Sri Lanka
Format ePub (for Digital Readers, including the Sony Reader, and PC/MAC) and Mobi (for Amazon Kindle)
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Excerpt

Past Scenes—Attractions of Ceylon—Emigration—Difficulties in Settling—Accidents and Casualties—An Eccentric Groom—Insubordination—Commencement of Cultivation—Sagacity of the Elephant—Disappointments—"Death" in the Settlement—Shocking Pasturage—Success of Emigrants—"A Good Knock-about kind of a Wife".


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