Two happy years in Ceylon (Registro nro. 118948)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gordon Cumming, C. F. |
| Fuller form of name | (Constance Frederica), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1924 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Two happy years in Ceylon |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | New edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | With 28 illustrations by the author, and a map. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-03-17 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Two happy years in Ceylon" by C. F. Gordon Cumming is a travelogue written in the late 19th century. It offers a vivid, first-hand portrait of colonial Ceylon’s landscapes, people, religions, wildlife, and monuments, as well as its shifting economy and infrastructure from coffee to tea and from Galle to Colombo. Observant and painterly, it blends natural history, archaeology, and everyday life with the impressions of an energetic traveler.<br/><br/>The opening of the work moves from glowing press notices and a preface into an introduction that explains the author’s family ties to empire and sport, the difficulties of earlier travel and mails, and the loss of a brother in Ceylon; it then recounts a first, enchanting glimpse of the island en route to India and a later return at the Bishop of Colombo’s invitation. Early chapters sketch recent changes: coffee’s collapse and tea’s rise, booming pearl fisheries, restored irrigation tanks, Colombo’s new breakwater and crowded harbour, jinrikishas, and new industries such as cotton mills paired with mission-led industrial schools. The narrative then turns to sensory travel scenes—arrival at Galle, spider-like outrigger canoes, encounters with Singhalese, Tamils, and Moormen, markets, “steamboat jewels,” and a gambler’s toss—set amid flamboyant flowers, climbing ferns, fireflies, and sea phosphorescence. A dawn excursion brings coral collecting, young cocoa-nuts, and portraits of cocoa and areca palms with betel-chewing customs, before departure for Calcutta. Returning after three years, the author reaches Colombo, describing the Pettah’s crowds, bullock carts (and cruel branding), abundant fruit stalls, and the Bishop’s base at Mutwal beside St. Thomas’s College and the cathedral. Education, missions, and daily village life—curry and rice, oil-sleeked hair, and bananas and the traveller’s tree—receive concise sketches. The section closes with a brisk history of Colombo Fort and the Dutch siege, breaking off mid-siege. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Chatto & Windus, 1901 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Sri Lanka -- Description and travel |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord">https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78228">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78228</a> |
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