Two happy years in Ceylon
Two Happy Years in Ceylon, published in 1892, is Constance Gordon Cumming's account of her travels through the island in the early 1870s. Beginning with her first glimpse of the tropics and the harbor at Colombo, she describes a coasting cruise, the hill station of Nuwara Eliya, wild and working elephants, Kandy and the Temple of the Tooth, the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, the gem pits of Ratnapura, Trincomalee, the southern coast, the coffee and tea planting districts and an ascent of Adam's Peak. Two closing chapters discuss Buddhism, Hinduism and the Christian missions. Gordon Cumming was an accomplished painter as well as a traveler, and her descriptions have a painter's attention to color and light. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Two happy years in Ceylon by C. F. Gordon Cumming is filed under "History" in the Vinteuil library.
