Every Day Life on a Ceylon Cocoa Estate

CHAPTER I. Start for Ceylon - Isolation of Estate Life - System of Management - 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 Festivities - 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 Children - White Ants - A New Clearing - An Elephant.

CHAPTER IX. Matale District - Aliwooharie Buddhist Temple - Beauties of the North Road - Curious Trees - Narrow Escape from Snake - French Speaking Coolies - Pepper.

CHAPTER X. Drought - a V.A. - Deserted Lines - Coolie Fear of Devils - Exorcising Them - Kandy Perahera

CHAPTER XI. Move to another Estate - Fine Bungalow and Garden - Bullock Carts - Welcome from Musicians and Dancers - Irrigation Works - Cinnamon Culture - Vanilla Culture.

CHAPTER XII. Tennis Party - Native Cure for Snakebite - Tamil Proverbs - Funeral Ceremonies - System of Mending Covernment Roads.

CHAPTER XIII. Plague of House flies - Cattle Sheds - Coffee Pulping - Capture of Cocoa Thieves - Sentence - Thunderstorm - Rickshaw Coolies - "Up Country" Bungalow and Church.

CHAPTER XIV. Burst of N.E. Monsoon - Cool Weather - Roses - Teevali Festival - Colombo - Quaint Letter.

CHAPTER XV. Christmas - Gymkana - Cross the River in a Catamaran - Native Jewellers - Ceylon Gems - Flying Foxes.

CHAPTER XVI. Tamil Wrestlers - Evil Charms - Priests Prophesy End of the World - New Coolies from India - Precautions Against Plague - Breaking in Hackery Bulls.

CHAPTER XVII. Burmese Pilgrims - Buddha's Tooth - Description of Temple and Shrine - Tamil Wedding Festivities - Heavy Rainfall - Cobra in Verandah - Snake Cbarmers.

CHAPTER XVIII. Visit from Native Bride and Bridegroom - Ramadan - Shoeing Estate Bullocks - Intense Heat - A Picnic - Prospects for Planters - Finis.

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