Volume 1

Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles.

  • Suckling, Horatio John.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Colleccam Aiithentica de todas as Leys^ Eegimentos^ Alvards e mais ordens que se expediram para a India^ desde o estahlecimento destas conquistas ; Ordendda por proviram de 28 de Marco de 1754.^ These contain the despatches to and from the successive Captains-General and Governors of Ceylon, so that, in part at least, the replacement of the records lost in the colony may he effected by transcription. ^leanwhile in their absence no other resource was left me than the original narratives of the Dutch and l^ortuguese historians, chiefly Valentyn, De Bakeos, and De Couto, who have preserved in two languages the least familiar in Europe, chronicles of their re- spective governments, which, so far as I am aware, have not been republished in any translation. The present volumes contain no detailed notice of the Buddist faith as it exists in Ceylon, of the Brahma- nical rites^ or of the other religious superstitions of the island. These I have already described in my history of Christianity in Ceylon!^ The materials for that work were originally designed to form a portion of the present one; but having expanded to too great dimensions to be made merely subsidiary, I formed them into a sepa- rate treatise. Along with them I have incorporated facts illustrative of the national character of the Sinirha- o lese under the conjoint influences of their ancestral superstitions and the partial enlightenment of education and gospel truth. Bespecting the Physical Geography and Natural His- 1 ]\rss. Brit. jMus. No. 20^61 to 20,900. Clu'idianity in Ceylon: its Iii- ti'uduction and Progress under the Portuguese^ the Dutch^ the British^ and American Missions; with on Historical Sketch of the Brahmanical and Buddhist Superstitions^ ])y Sir James Emerson Tennent. London, Murray, 1850,