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Title : The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year : 1902 ( 1900s )
Authors : S. P. Hall Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects : George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher : London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library : Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor : Boston Public Library

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vening we witness from the verandah thecelebrated Perahara procession, a relic of old barbaroustimes. The park is lit up with hundreds of lamps of a i2. CEYLON. PROCESSION OF TEMPLE ELEPHANTS ANDDEVIL-DANCERS AT KANDY OF EMPIRE rightly, and we have before y views it is possible to imagine. - to a oonsider- expanse of ley, in ery high degreepaddy-fields, which arepicturesque feature in a land-here add somehow to the generaletches away for many miles a hillyse jungle, beyond which risesqha 8tviahi3J3 3j£mim6&:$k&p.§$- YaVlAX TA SZSLOKAa-JIvtftf1^ to ascenQj m and tain Dawson, whap the pass,—we descendley in which stand ucrent capital in kings. The modern Kandyans areir skill in decorating their town in honoured visitors, and on ision they up their r ail way Pavilion, greenery, all of the riedand original in their s a charming country-house in a h spacious rooms and verandahs ^> of a sultry climate. itness from the ve ■ the , a relic oi >ous of a
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in FROM MALTA TO CEYLON 67 peculiar pattern—cocoa-nut shells fixed on stakes andfilled with palm-oil, which produces a delicate haze ofthin blue smoke and a by no means agreeable odour.On the lawn before the house are sixty-three richlycaparisoned elephants surrounded by a dense crowd ofgaily attired natives. A few yards in advance of thecrowd stand a row of tall, broad-shouldered, handsomemen with venerable grey beards, swarthy complexions,and regular features of the European rather than theAsiatic type. Their costume is anything but European.The head-dress resembles a gigantic ornamental pin-cushion with one of the four corners protruding overthe forehead. On the shoulders is worn a wide-sleevedZouave jacket of more modern cut. Round the waistand loins is a long coil of fine muslin, varying in length,I am told, from fifty to a hundred yards, according tothe taste and resources of the wearer. The nethergarment is a pair of white trousers of such modestdimensions that the lower part

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