Ferguson, John, Ceylon in 1893

(London : Colombo :  John Haddon ; A. M. & J. Ferguson,  1893.)

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INDEX.
 

Abbotseord, tea  and  cinchona

  plantation (illustration), 65

Abhayagiri dagoba, 359

Abolition of paddy rent, 152, 167

Acreage under coffee, 66-71

---■ cinchona, 75

----tea, 79, 93

----new products, 73-87

Adam's Bridge, 7

----Peak, 8, 128, 137

-------shadow of, 207

Address,  native titles of, 459

Administration of Ceylon, 156-71

Administration of justice, cost of,

  34

Advice to young planters, 268

African palm-oil nuts,  88

Agricultural  and  manufacturing

  interests,  native,  4.5-61,  90-93,

  168

Agricultural College, 162

----education, 31, 162

Agriculture  under the  Dutch, 6,

  46, 167

Agriculture, glossary of terms, 462

Agriculture, manuals on tropical,

  114

Agriculturist, tropical,  75, 114

Alagalla  Peak (illustration), 130

Altitudes of mountains, 8

---suited  to  coffee  and  tea,

  69, 78

Ambalangoda, 128

American Mission in Ceylon, 381

Animals, wild, 33, 145

Annoto dye  plant, 88

Anuradhapura,  38,  145, 170, 209,

  345,  354, 362, 371

Antiquities,  345
 

  Apprentices to tea-planters, 113

  Arabi and the Egyptian exiles, 2,

    120

  Arabs, cinnamon known to, 51

  Arabs, coffee introduced by, 63

  Area of Ceylon, 7

  Areca palm, 56

  Army.  See Military.

  Arrack, 53

  Assam tea-tree {illustration). 81

  Asylums in Ceylon, 30

  Atmospheric disturbances, 110

  Australia to Ceylon, 165

  Avisawella, 132



  Backwaters, 8, 22

!  Badulla, 336

  Baker, Sir Samuel, 122

  Bandarawella, 142

  Bank notes, 10, 27, 40

  ---- Oriental Corporation, 27, 36

  Banks in Ceylon, 9

  ----Savings, 9, 27, 36

  Banyan  tree (illustrations),  92,

    313

  Baptist Mission in Ceylon, 382

  Bark, cinnamon, 51

  ----cinchona.  See Cinchona.

  Barnes,  Governor  Sir   Edward,

    11-13, 24, 64, 126

  Batticaloa, 46, 48, 59, 146, 322

  Batticotta, 314

  Beef, supply of,  in Ceylon,  60,

    145

  Bell's, H.C.E., excavations, 371

  Benefits from roads, 17

  ----planting enterprise, 99-109

  Boats, bridge of, 12

  ----(illustration), 13
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